Weber with 4 string unisons

[Phillip Ford]

>Phil,
>Your observation about the case being suitable for travel makes perfect 
>sense.  Since there were only a handful of these made, they still needed 
>to travel quite a bit to meet the demands of Paderewki's his concert tour.

Jeannie,

I had assumed that the piano that I have was Paderewski's personal piano and 
had traveled around with him - I think he had his own railroad car(s).  Do 
you think that all the pianos of this model were manufactured for the use 
of Paderewski and were stationed around the country to accomodate him?  It 
would be interesting to know if any of the other ones that are around are 
set up for traveling in the way that mine is.  I'm also curious about Weber 
documents that might still be around that might shed some light on 
this.  Jack Wyatt, what say you?

>
>
>I'm not surprised that most of the ones I've heart about have been in poor 
>to disastrous shape.  They would present unique challenges to a rebuilder, 
>like the four-string agraffes, just to mention one.

And the delaminating rim (in the case of my piano), to mention another.

>
>Taylor MacKinnon, in Portland, tunes one that has been made into a piano 
>bar and we all know the sad life of a piano in that role.
>
>jeannie
>
>Jeannie Grassi, RPT

Like hooking Secretariat up to a plow.

Phil




Phillip Ford
Piano Service and Restoration
San Francisco, CA