Dale writes: >>BTW All vintage Steinway had the back rail glued on both sides. We still put it back that way. There is always an underlayment of red felt & sometimes a shim of the red colored oil board that Steinway has used forever. The back of the key always stops precisely with out bounce and the hammer line doesn't wander I am not sure about the "all" part of this. My experience with many Steinways from before 1920 is that the back rail cloth is usually not glued at the back. I am speaking of untouched pianos. I haven't noticed any less stability with it done this way, and, it seems to lessen the noise. Regards, Ed Foote RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091213/e9f1ad82/attachment.htm>
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