The Mother of all Bellyrails

[gordon stelter]

I know of a rosewood Steck upright with no backposts.
Just a MASSIVE plate flange all around the case. $50
gets it.
     Thump

--- Phillip Ford <fordpiano@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >I've been at this rewhatevering business since
> early in the 1960s. About 
> >the time I figure I must have seen most everything,
> someone like 
> >Chickering comes along with this:
> >
> >Yes, that gold stuff between the agraffe line and
> the bridges is plate! 
> >It's all part of a continuous, one-piece casting.
> And around the
> bellyrail 
> >the casting extends down probably another 75 mm the
> full width of the 
> >bellyrail........
> >Del
> >
> 
> Del,
> 
> Sorry for the slow response on this.  A few months
> back I saw a Steck grand that had a similar
> construction.  An integral cast flange on the plate
> that was supporting the bellyrail.  Seemed a good
> idea to me.  I don't recall that this additional
> structure was as massive as on this Chickering.  I
> don't think it extended out as far over the
> soundboard.  I also don't recall how far the flange
> extended down onto the bellyrail.  I would guess the
> piano was about an 1890 vintage.  The action was out
> so I didn't get to 
> hear it.  It was at a friend's shop in LA.  I think
> it's still there.  I should be down there in 2 or 3
> weeks.  I'll try to take some pictures.
> 
> I like the look of this piano; the case shape as
> others mentioned, but also the plate casting with
> lots of small holes rather than a few large holes.
> 
> Phil F
> 
> 
> 
> Phillip Ford
> Piano Service & Restoration
> 1777 Yosemite Ave - 215
> San Francisco, CA  94124
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