[pianotech] Ahlstrom --- Piano

Mon Feb 2 08:25:38 PST 2009

Hello Pat,

     Thank you for your reply.  This information  will go into the
PTGF.  " Piano  Registry."  Your name will be  registered also.

   Present and future  Technicians 20, 50, 100 years  from now 
can have access to this knowledge.

  If someone does not preserve this information then it will be
gone forever. This would be a shameful loss.

   The  P.T.G. Foundation has now began this  effort.

We need help,    Thank you for yours,

Jack Wyatt
Dallas,

In a message dated 1/31/2009 1:35:24 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
jpdraine at gmail.com writes:

Hi Jack,   
You've jarred some long sleeping memory cells! Way back when I was  "thinking 
about" a career in piano technology(1974-75?), my next door  neighbors left 
their Ahlstrom upright piano in front of their apartment  building (sans top 
front panel). After confirming it was "free for the  taking", I gathered a few 
friends to haul it up several steps into my  apartment. I had it for about 5 
years, and moved it several times as I moved  around University Circle 
(Cleveland).
When I "got serious", and attended Robert Perkins' piano technology  school 
on the west side of Cleveland, I spent many hours at it, toiling away  at the 
basics.
Philistine that I was at the time, my frustration with "interference"  from 
the auxiliary strings singing away in the high treble, led me to remove  those 
strings. I passed it on to some friends when I moved back East  (1979).
Patrick Draine

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:23 PM, <_JWyatt1492 at aol.com_ 
(mailto:JWyatt1492 at aol.com) > wrote:

Hello to all,

      C. A. Ahlstron and his Brothers did  indeed make high 
quality Pianos.

   In addition to their non-blockable action they  employed
a self  regulating device in the action to insure that  there
would be no blocking.

   A special feature of their later pianos is the  incorporation 
of a system of auxiliary or sympathetic strings in the upper
register. Experience and logic would lead us to believe it 
was  similar  to the  German " Bluthner "  Aliquot feature.   

  I would appreciate any and all factual information on  this 
 "Ahlstom"  feature.  I need this info. for the PTG.  Museum.

Regards and 
Thanks
Jack Wyatt
Dallas  

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