matushek square grand

[Mark Dierauf]

I saw one of these a couple of years ago that dated well after the turn
of the (last) century. 1920’s if I’m not mistaken. I thought that the
Pierce Atlas numbers must’ve been wrong until I noticed that it had a
modern grand action stack on top of the keys, with normal wips, etc. but
I can’t remember what the damper system was like. I still refused to
tune it on principal, pawning it off on one of my square-lovin’ friends!
Maybe Matushek marketed it as Retro in the 20’s!

- Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Tvak@aol.com [mailto:Tvak@aol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:16 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: matushek square grand

List

Without starting a discussion of the uselessness of square grands in
general, is a Matushek considered one of the better examples of this
genre?  

Tom Sivak