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 -- ______________________________________________________________________ Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew Dorset DT11 0HX * England Phone: +44 1202 731031 Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 * Fax: +44 870 705 3241 ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080415/d54c6bcb/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lipp_grand_treble_01.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 46622 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080415/d54c6bcb/attachment-0004.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lipp_grand_treble_02.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 42542 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080415/d54c6bcb/attachment-0005.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lipp_grand_treble_03.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 36700 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080415/d54c6bcb/attachment-0006.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lipp_grand_treble_04.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 52425 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080415/d54c6bcb/attachment-0007.jpg
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