Steinway D 1923 - Feet brackets

Pascal MANSY pmansy@swbell.net
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:43:17 -0700 (PDT)


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It's a screw that can be turned by hand. They have a big metal piece that you can turn by hand instead of using a screw driver.

Avery Todd <avery1@houston.rr.com> wrote:PM (whoever you are),

I've never heard of "butterfly screws" on a Steinway. What are they?

Avery

At 11:09 AM 7/21/05, you wrote:
>On the older steinways, the feet were attached with 2 screws + 1 big 
>"butterfly screw" for lateral stability. During moving, 2 of those 
>"butterfly" screws were lost as well as one of the metal brackets 
>holding those screws. Steinway no longer manufactures those parts. 
>Does anybody knows where I could find them, or does anybody knows a 
>shop that could make them?
>
>Thanks!
>
>PM

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