<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>RE: Old piano new action</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style></style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<p>Ah, Shteinvay ... never out of date. </p>
<p>I'm guessing some unscrewedpulous tech swapped actions in order to get rid of the Teflon action. (Well, weirder things have happened.)<br /><br />Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO<br /><br /></p>
<div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px">
<hr />Original message<br />From: "William Benjamin"
<pianoboutique@comcast.net></pianoboutique@comcast.net><br />To: pianotech@ptg.org<br />Received: 8/11/2007 1:12:50 PM<br />Subject: Old piano new action<br /><br />
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">List,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">This time I have really run into something strange. Customer has a Steinway S serial number, 283983 which indicates it is an older grand. She even had the receipt from 1939 where her grandmother paid $850 for the piano.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Here is the problem, it has an accelerated action with Teflon bushings. Sorry, I did not look at the damper stack, but it has newer hammers and wippins. Has there been a practice in the past of installing modern actions in older grands?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">This is a first for me, anyone want to enlighten me?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">William</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">PIANO BOUTIQUE<br />William Benjamin<br />Piano Tuner Extraordinaire<br /><a href="http://www.pianoboutique.biz/">www.pianoboutique.biz</a><br />The tuner alone,<br />preserves the tone.</font></div>
<div></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>