---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment >> >I should have put that in quotes like above but isn't > >>that one of their big selling points? "Hand made!" > > > >>Avery > > > <Yes indeed, "hand made". > > ... but everything in the action is still machined... > > <G> > > Ron N> > Avery and Ron, Just about two weeks ago the Chicago Chapter met at the local S&S rebuild shop and was treated to a presentation by Eric Schandall, which focused on Steinway parts and how they were and are manufactured. Yes, all of them are machined, most now by entirely new, redesigned machines of rather staggering proportions, but machined...............by hand. That is, almost all of these machines have an operator controlling them, rather than leaving it to computerized controls, as would usually be the case, say, in machine tool shops. Sure, the parts are made to more uniform tolerances than they have ever been.......but as Ron is saying (I believe--he'll stomp me if I'm wrong, don't worry), all of this fine, precision array is then assembled by hand in a piano carcass that has NOT been machined to similarly close tolerances, hence the lack of interchangeability of actions, for example. And the vastly different feel to instruments that only LOOK identical. (Why this should come as any kind of surprise, I don't know!) Stan Ryberg Barrington IL Associate Member mailto:jstan40@aol.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/43/fa/d9/91/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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