Steinway Upright completed

[Fenton Murray]

RE: Steinway Upright completedDale,
Looks like you made pinblock inserts, then veneer, then redrill. But, it looks like the inserts are already drilled or center punched before veneering. Care to elaborate when you return from MARC? Great looking restoration, awesome cabinet.
Fenton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alan Barnard 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:22 PM
  Subject: RE: Steinway Upright completed



  Wow (as usual).

  Alan Barnard
  Salem, MO



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Original message
  From: Erwinspiano at aol.com
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Received: 4/17/2007 7:28:32 AM
  Subject: Steinway Upright completed


  HI All
    I sent thru some info on a restoration in process , an 1880's Steinway up., last month & said I'd report on the outcome.  I applied a rib crowned boared & made the panel in house from some very tight Sitka planks. The new board now has a belly bigger than mine. grin. Oh what a booming  sound before it was strung!!
      This scale has a bizarre 20 note bass & I changed the original  tenor string arrangement transition from 2 bichords 7 tri-chords to all bi-chords.  What a smooth & sonorous transition this turned out to be. The bass note 20 to tenor note 21 is the most noticeable but blends well & immediately by playing chromatically thru the section & then from note 27 to plain wire 28 is virtually invisible. I also eliminated the cantilever from the bass bridge set up.
    I just returned from the beach house where it was craned into. I had a chance to dial in the voicing & tuning in it's home location which is always waaaay different acoustically from my shop & the outcome tonally was very satisfying.  The trebles were very, very clear, with more sustain than any S&S upright I've ever encounterd. However this scale has the same strike line problems most Steinway grands  do & I had to alter the hammers line from f-5 thru F- 6 , moving them closer to the top termination by only about 2 mm but what a huge difference.
    The bass tonality is beautiful & the client who has not played on the refined & voiced version said it was a miraculous change.  Always good to hear this!   She plays well & has a very fussy pair of ears. I can't say the removal of the cantilever ,at least in this case was an improvement. It seemed like I could more easily change partial spectrum & it was a very robust bottom end/fundamental.
    The entire job was more expensive than we all thought but I did it for my own reasons. However Its' my last Stwy upright.  Way to much of Murphy's law at work plus the entire super structure was coming apart & was totally reglued & re-enforced.
    Hope this is interesting to some
    regards to all
    Dale Erwin R.P.T.

   

   Dale Erwin--Piano Restorations
  4721 Parker rd
  Modesto, Ca. 95357
  Shop 209-577-8397
   Web site http://www.Erwinspiano.com 
  Restoration & Sales of
  Steinway & Sons & other fine pianos.
  " Soundboards by Design"






------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  See what's free at AOL.com. 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070419/4809c1c8/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpg
Size: 66800 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070419/4809c1c8/attachment-0006.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpg
Size: 46165 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070419/4809c1c8/attachment-0007.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpg
Size: 57805 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070419/4809c1c8/attachment-0008.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpg
Size: 40320 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070419/4809c1c8/attachment-0009.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpg
Size: 40522 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070419/4809c1c8/attachment-0010.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpg
Size: 75215 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070419/4809c1c8/attachment-0011.jpg