[pianotech] Steinway Grand (more)

Conrad Hoffsommer choffsommer at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 28 15:54:26 MST 2011


When we got an ex-CD D at my former employer's(college), the real serial number was to be found in most, if not all, the aforementioned places. The first place I looked was the underside of the keyslip, and there it was!

Obviously YMMV!

Conrad Hoffsommer




Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:39:53 -0600
From: bill at a440piano.net
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Steinway Grand (more)

Now I'm not going to begin to suggest I have more experience or knowledge than Isaac, or Mr. Friedman, but, aren't the C&A pianos given the designation CD and then the digits?  And, if memory serves, Glenn Gould had CD318.  Now I don't remember what number you had, Clark, but if it's four digits, I really can't fathom it's a C&A piano.  Four digits would probably make it from about the year 2094 or some such..... I would suggest that earlier suggestions that your number is simply a case part number is more accurate.  I think you'll just really have to dig for that Serial number.

William R. Monroe


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Clark Sprague <CSPRAGUE4 at woh.rr.com> wrote:

Keith, and all, I called Bob Friedman, and I also heard from Isaac.  They both said the same thing, and that is that the piano belonged to the Concert Division, and that it was probably given, or rented to a school for performance halls too small to have a D.  Then it was sold off.  So the next step is to figure out what those 4 numbers translate to in terms of the age of the piano.


   I will do some more investigation to see if there are more numbers somewhere else that would indicate the age.  Thanks to all who have contributed!



Clark

 		 	   		  
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