treble fish on steroids

[John Delacour]

At 11:15 -0700 15/4/08, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:

>When I started using them -- and teaching others how to use them -- nobody was
>calling them anything. They had not been used -- and rarely seen -- 
>for the best part of a century...

...and for the best part of the one before.  Here is a 6'6" grand 
from 1899 by Lipp, which I consider the finest of German makers.  The 
inner rim all round the piano is massive but at the treble, as you 
see it is extended by a massive block of beech 5-1/4" thick which 
reaches to the level of the top of the damm.  The "fish" is also 
integral with the inner rim and the beech frame bearing.

I have just recommenced work on this piano and am greatly looking 
forward to hearing how it sounds.  From the look of it when I bought 
it it had been kept for 100 years in an unused room gathering dust, 
never played and never tuned -- the perfect restoration candidate.

I also have a 5'9" Lipp from 1907 but it is not constructed like 
this.  Whether this design was peculiar to the 6'6" model or whether 
it was discontinued on all models at the end of the century I don't 
know.

JD









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