<html> <head> <title>RE: Steinway Upright completed</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" /> </head> <body id="role_body" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7"><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> </div></font><font style="font: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; color: black">Wow (as usual).<br /><br />Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO<br /><br /> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr />Original message<br />From: Erwinspiano@aol.com<br />To: pianotech@ptg.org<br />Received: 4/17/2007 7:28:32 AM<br />Subject: Steinway Upright completed<br /><br /><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div><strong><em>HI All</em></strong></div> <div><em><strong>  I sent thru some info on a restoration in process , an 1880's Steinway up., last month & said I'd report on the outcome.  I applied a rib crowned boared & made the panel in house from some very tight Sitka planks. The new board now has a belly bigger than mine. grin. Oh what a booming  sound before it was strung!!</strong></em></div> <div><em><strong>    This scale has a bizarre 20 note bass & I changed the original  tenor string arrangement transition from 2 bichords 7 tri-chords to <u>all bi-chords</u>.  What a smooth & sonorous transition this turned out to be. The bass note 20 to tenor note 21 is the most noticeable but blends well & immediately by playing chromatically thru the section & then from note 27 to plain wire 28 is virtually invisible. I also eliminated the cantilever from the bass bridge set up.</strong></em></div> <div><em><strong>  I just returned from the beach house where it was craned into. I had a chance to dial in the voicing & tuning in it's home location which is always waaaay different acoustically from my shop & the outcome tonally was very satisfying.  The trebles were very, very clear, with more sustain than any S&S upright I've ever encounterd. However this scale has the same strike line problems most Steinway grands  do & I had to alter the hammers line from f-5 thru F- 6 , moving them closer to the top termination by only about 2 mm but what a huge difference.</strong></em></div> <div><em><strong>  The bass tonality is beautiful & the client who has not played on the refined & voiced version said it was a miraculous change.  Always good to hear this!   She plays well & has a very fussy pair of ears. I can't say the removal of the cantilever ,at least in this case was an improvement. It seemed like I could more easily change partial spectrum & it was a very robust bottom end/fundamental.</strong></em></div> <div><strong><em>  The entire job was more expensive than we all thought but I did it for my own reasons. However Its' my last Stwy upright.  Way to much of Murphy's law at work plus the entire super structure was coming apart & was totally reglued & re-enforced.</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>  Hope this is interesting to some</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>  regards to all</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>  Dale Erwin R.P.T.</em></strong></div> <div> </div> <div><img id="MA1.1176827280" style="width: 480px; height: 360px" height="360" src="cid:dscn7598.jpg@39189.6823443403.759" width="480" vspace="5" comp_state="speed" datasize="66800" /><img id="MA2.1176827280" style="width: 480px; height: 360px" height="360" src="cid:dscn7804.jpg@39189.6823443403.627" width="480" vspace="5" comp_state="speed" datasize="46165" /><img id="MA3.1176827280" style="width: 480px; height: 360px" height="360" src="cid:dscn7830.jpg@39189.6823443519.180" width="480" vspace="5" comp_state="speed" datasize="57805" /><img id="MA4.1176827280" style="width: 480px; height: 360px" height="360" src="cid:dscn7513.jpg@39189.6823443634.37" width="480" vspace="5" comp_state="speed" datasize="40320" /><img id="MA5.1176827280" style="width: 480px; height: 360px" height="360" src="cid:dscn7514.jpg@39189.6823443634.73" width="480" vspace="5" comp_state="speed" datasize="40522" /><img id="MA6.1176827280" style="width: 480px; height: 360px" height="360" src="cid:dscn7570.jpg@39189.682344375.689" width="480" vspace="5" comp_state="speed" datasize="75215" /> <div> </div> <div><font lang="0" face="Book Antiqua" size="2" family="SERIF" ptsize="10"><b><i> </i>Dale Erwin--Piano Restorations<br />4721 Parker rd<br />Modesto, Ca. 95357<br />Shop 209-577-8397<br /></b></font><font lang="0" face="Abadi MT Condensed" color="#000000" size="2" family="SANSSERIF" ptsize="10"> </font><font lang="0" face="Abadi MT Condensed" color="#000000" size="3" family="SANSSERIF" ptsize="12">Web site <a href="http://www.erwinspiano.com/">http://www.Erwinspiano.com</a></font><font lang="0" face="Abadi MT Condensed" color="#000000" size="2" family="SANSSERIF" ptsize="10"> </font><font lang="0" face="Book Antiqua" color="#000000" size="2" family="SERIF" ptsize="10"><i><br />Restoration & Sales of<br />Steinway & Sons & other fine pianos.<br />" Soundboards by Design"</i><br /></font></div> </div></font><br /><br /><br /> <div><font style="font: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; color: black"> <hr style="margin-top: 10px" />See what's free at <a title="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" href="http://www.aol.com/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" target="_blank">AOL.com</a>. </font> </div> </div></font> </body> </html>