I also have one of the grand's in my clientele. The serial is 1154 so it is slightly older. The piano was in a church that had a roof leak over the piano. Luckily it was discovered in time so that all it needed was a new set of hammers and new strings. The interesting thing in restringing the bass was that under the string bearing felt between the agraffe's and the pins were a second set of agraffe holes. Apparently there had been a change of scaling for the bass and the agraffes were move closer to the bridge. This piano was very seldom used before I did the work. It was the piano that I took lessons on and when you played, it responded normally until you got to about a forte playing level. After that point you had to really pound and then it would "jump" to a FF. While working on the piano, I discovered that an ivory key front had lodged under the balance rail. When that was removed, the piano played beautifully and has been in constant use at the church since. I believe that the ivory keytop caused the balance rail to flex and absorb the energy that was needed for a FF level of playing. This was one of those situations where I came off looking like a miracle worker when all it took was to do some basic cleaning up and bedding of the action frame. Rex Roseman -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Dornfeld [mailto:bdornfeld at earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:49 PM To: pianotech Subject: [pianotech] CF Stein Not too long ago, there was discussion on this list about Charles Frederick Stein, the scale designer and piano builder. This week I saw one of the CF Steins in my clientel. This one is a 6 foot 1 inch grand. Stein had a factory in Chicago; I serve Chicago's northern suburbs so I see more of these than most of you. This was built about 1930, and had some rebuilding work done, probably in the 1980s. It now has Schaff bass strings, a newer pinblock, hammers and shanks. It is a very nice piano, not much out of the norm. I am not sure about sending photo files in a smaller size, so I will try sending the seven I have one at a time with comments. This first is just the fallboard decal. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT North Shore Chapter bdornfeld at earthlink.net
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