[pianotech] iron plate

[Israel Stein]

Folks,

I suggest that you check out the early Steinway uprights (1860's), 
designed by Theodore Steinway - which were built on the "double plate" 
design. I have a client in Oakland with such a "double plate" Steinway 
upright. Yes, there is an iron "plate" (actually a network of struts) 
behind the soundboard and the back posts as well as the usual plate in 
front of the soundboard.. Some of the early Steinway grands from the 
late 1850s (the so-called "Monitor" pianos - predecessors of the models 
D and C)) also had the same sort of plate design - with plate struts 
both above and below the soundboard. The expert on all this Steinway 
lore would be Bill Shull of the Pomona chapter in California, who 
thoroughly researched the early Steinway designs. I am not surprised 
that other manufacturers used this "double plate" design also.

Israel Stein
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> Subject:
> [pianotech] iron plate
> From:
> Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com>
> Date:
> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:06:43 -0800
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> Hi Kerry,
> That's what this lady said when she called me. The piano had an iron 
> plate on the back.  I cannot visualize this.  The back posts then go 
> over the plate?  Interesting.
> Marshall
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> Subject:
> Re: [pianotech] iron plate
> From:
> wimblees at aol.com
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> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:38:24 -0500
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> Marshall
>  
> People who don't know anything about pianos assume a lot of things. 
> What Jim was referring to was that in some pianos, instead of being 
> made out of wood, the back posts are made of metal.  But some people 
> think that because the posts are metal, that they are they plate. The 
> plate is still in the same place.
>  
> To show how uninformed some people are, I read a classified ad in the 
> St. Louis paper once that said the piano had a solid cast iron 
> soundboard.
> Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com>
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Sent: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 8:06 am
> Subject: [pianotech] iron plate
>
> Hi Kerry,
> That's what this lady said when she called me. The piano had an iron 
> plate on the back.  I cannot visualize this.  The back posts then go 
> over the plate?  Interesting.
> Marshall
>
> Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician
> Marshall's Piano Service
> */pianotune05 at hotmail.com <mailto:pianotune05 at hotmail.com>/*
> 215-510-9400
> Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind 
> www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> 
> Vancouver, WA
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