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color=#000000><STRONG><EM>Hey Jude dude</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial
color=#000000><STRONG><EM> I spoke with Udo Steingraeber
Friday night at a private party/ Reception, in Which his new & 7 ft &
7inch piano was showcased by five of the most awesome & prodigious L.A.
First call, A list pianists & Jazz players. BTW...Jude , he
confirmed many things you state below.</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000><STRONG><EM> The piano sounded awesome. T'was
Dark, clear & singing & powerful. No duplex scaling behind the
bridge & each backscale length was nice & uniform as it rested on a half
round brass bearing bar. </EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000><STRONG><EM> I checked the residual treble bearing to be
evenly about 1 1/2 degrees. The rear lengths were ,in my opinion,
adequate for bridge freedom. </EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000><STRONG><EM> It's tonal pocket is very similar
to what I'm trying to achieve thru an entirely different form of Sound board
building. In my experience any board dried to 4 % before ribbing would show
compression rumpling a cross the panel after stringing but none was in evidence
on this piano. It had 15 taller than wide ribs & a nice sweeping cutoff bar
& aquite a thin panel as best as I could tlel by peeping thru the nose bolt
holes.</EM></STRONG> <STRONG><EM>Udo confirms using flat ribs in a dish of sorts
& palced a big emphasis about crown along the bridge. In fact he
had never heard of checking the crown along the ribs with a String. I was
honestly baffled by this. Certainly a certain amount of crown is expected across
the ribs but perhaps it was all propreitary which is as it should
be.</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial
color=#000000><EM><STRONG>Whatever. The on going lessons for me are that,
.....many things work & some of them work really well. What I do know
is the piano sounded</STRONG><FONT size=4> truly awesome</FONT></EM>
<STRONG><EM>& personally inspiring & also. It would only let
me play minor key stuff at first & sounded familiar to a certain D I
once rebuilt but .....that's another story.</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM> David & Tanya put on a elegant &
wonderful party for the Steingraeber crew & friends & he can
elaborate as he wishes.</EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM> Dale Erwin</EM></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000>As for
Steingraber, they seem to be the only company that is really trying <BR>to
preserve a dome shape to their boards. Not only do they glue a <BR>pre-crowned
treble bridge to an unribbed board, they also custom fit the rim <BR>all the way
round, which makes more sense than assuming a 1 degree angle on <BR>three sides
will yield anything except more stress (not that I'm saying more <BR>stress is
undesirable). The Germans seem to have done copious research on <BR>stress in
soundboards as a tone-producing ingredient, according to Sauter. <BR>There are
many texts in German which have yet to be translated into English.<BR><BR>The
Steingraber bass bridge is attached after the board is installed because <BR>of
the many centemeter variations in the plate casting. The bass bridge is
<BR>therefore hallowed out at the root to allow it to flex onto the crown of the
<BR>board.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jude Reveley, RPT<BR>Absolute Piano
Restoration, LLC<BR>Lowell, Massachusetts<BR>(978) 323-4545
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