<font color='navy' size='2' face='Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif'>Del<font color="navy" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="2">/Laura<br>  This would be something to see/play one. Ok,...I know it was 25 years ago but what was your impressions of the sound/power/sonority/subjective experience?<br>  Mine is a very clear and full. A lovely musical  sounding piano and to my ear a finer sound than so many things these days especially for 5 ft 6insches. Its a wide bodied case and so has a few more square inches of board area. The double crowned construction with the ribbing done up this way must have been very expensive to make. I wouldn't have the foggiest notion of how to try to replicate the board set up though for enough money... I would try<br>   Laura, the plate was made by a now defunct plate manufacturer. Godzilla piano plates....really. </font><img src="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/wink.png" alt=";-)" height="25" width="25"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><br>  Yours was the same vintage. I marvel at the sheer ingenuity of folks that designed wonders like this. <br>  BTW.....Probably the piano movers union bought them out....hmmm....<br> <br> The usual standing invitation to visit this relic is open to any brethren  who wander thru the area.<br> <br> </font></font><font color="navy" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="2"> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="clear:both"><font size="1"><b><font color="indigo" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Dale S. Erwin<br> www.Erwinspiano.com<br> 209-577-8397</font></b></font><font size="1"><b><br> 209-985-0990</b><br> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"></span><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></i></b></font><font color="navy" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="1"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></i></font><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1">Ronsen hammers/prep<br> Sitka Sound boards<br> Belly packages</font></b></span><tt><tt><br> <br> <font size="2"> Poor decisions are rarely made right by a greater commitment to them.</font> <br>   <font size="2">"<b>David Love</b>"</font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Delwin D Fandrich <del@fandrichpiano.com><br> To: pianotech@ptg.org<br> Sent: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 8:01 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Julius Bauer finished<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69"> <base><style>#AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 td{color: black;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Georgia; panose-1:2 4 5 2 5 4 5 2 3 3;} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 p.MsoNormal,#AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 li.MsoNormal,#AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 a:link,#AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 a:visited,#AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 tt {mso-style-priority:99; font-family:"Courier New";} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 p.MsoAcetate,#AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 li.MsoAcetate,#AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 div.MsoAcetate {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 span.apple-style-span {mso-style-name:apple-style-span;} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 span.apple-converted-space {mso-style-name:apple-converted-space;} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 span.EmailStyle20 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:navy; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none none;} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 span.BalloonTextChar {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} #AOLMsgPart_2_2175ad95-e952-4f4e-ac26-bedd049cda69 div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style> <div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy">Unfortunately I don’t remember the date—this was 25 years ago. I never had the piano officially weighed but my best estimate was somewhere around 2,000 lbs. (A Baldwin SD-10 is, if memory serves, about 1,150 lbs.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy">ddf</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy"> </span></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Delwin D Fandrich</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632423"></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Piano Design & Fabrication</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632423"></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632423">6939 Foothill Court SW, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Olympia, Washington 98512 USA</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Phone  360.515.0119 — Cell  360.388.6525</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632423"></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423"><a href="mailto:del@fandrichpiano.com"><span style="color:blue">del@fandrichpiano.com </span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">— </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423"><a href="mailto:ddfandrich@gmail.com"><span style="color:blue">ddfandrich@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy"></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy"> </span></div> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Olsen<br> <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 03, 2011 7:47 PM<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Julius Bauer finished</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">A 9'Bauer! How old was it?  It must have been a tank. Any idea how much it weighed?</div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Laura Olsen</div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Barrington, IL </div> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">On Jul 3, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:</div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><br> <br> </div> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy">For several years I owned a 9’ Bauer grand. It looked just like an elongated version of Dale’s piano. This was the heaviest piano I’ve ever seen. I often pondered what the looks on the foundryman’s face must have been like when the Bauer folks showed up with that plate design.</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy"> </span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy">ddf</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy"> </span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Delwin D Fandrich</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Piano Design & Fabrication</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#632423">6939 Foothill Court SW,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Olympia, Washington 98512 USA</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Phone  360.515.0119 — Cell  360.388.6525</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423"><a href="mailto:del@fandrichpiano.com">del@fandrichpiano.com<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></a>—<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ddfandrich@gmail.com">ddfandrich@gmail.com</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy"> </span></div> </div> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-width:initial;border-color:initial"> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Laura Olsen<br> <b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:40 PM<br> <b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [pianotech] Julius Bauer finished</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Hi Dale,</div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">I had one of these I took care of for about 15 years.  Huge plate.  Ribs on both sides of the soundboard, right?  Mine was serial number 35073.  Was that close to yours?</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">I had a Bauer upright of the same vintage (and heft to the plate).  Who cast those plates?  They were real knuckle busters. (the uprights). There was a picture on a Journal of the Chicago Opera House, pre 1871 and a W.W. Kimball store and J. Bauer store flanked the main entrance.  I think it's in Jack Greenfield's book<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>The History of Midwestern Piano Manufacturing</u> that J. Bauer was established in Chicago in 1857.  A chief competitor of Kimball in those days.  It was bought by Wurlitzer in 1930 and the name dropped by 1940.  What do you think of that soundboard configuration?  I'll have to check the archives for your trials and tribulations during the rebuilding process.  It looks fabulous. Congratulations.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Laura Olsen</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Barrington, IL</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">On Jun 30, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:</div> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><br> <br> <br> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy"> </span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy">  Ok,.... How bout some really fun piano news. Today it finally got done.<br>   Many will recall my endeavor over the last few years to restore a 5ft 6  inch Julius Bauer grand circa 1924.<br>   Well,... my original assessment about its unique construction, and possible tonal glory, has now been vindicated.<br>  It sound fantastic! I have it the same room with my Hot rod B. They are interestingly in similar tonal pockets/universes.<br>   Clear floating sustaining sound. A very respectable legitimate sounding bottom end and a decent bass/tenor break. A full bodied and balanced sound. Tenor trebles are clear and singing.<br>   Tone powered by Ronsen Weickert. Of course!<br>   A little filing over the tops and pound in some tunings and it sound gorgeous. Playing real music on this overweight beast is a real listening pleasure. Affectioanly named ller when the boys moved it 4 years ago. There is so much weight in the palte that it fell over and tried to squash Dennis in the trailer. It hit the side and not him.<br> More pictures</span></div> </div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy"><Julius -1.jpg></span></div> </div> <div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy"> </span></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy">Web site at WWW.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a target="_blank" href="http://Erwinspiano.com">Erwinspiano.com</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>under pianos for sle<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:indigo">Dale S. Erwin<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com">www.Erwinspiano.com</a><br> 209-577-8397</span></b><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy"><br> 209-985-0990</span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy"><br> <b><i>Ronsen hammers/prep<br> Sitka Sound boards<br> Belly packages</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy"><br> <br> <tt> Poor decisions are rarely made right by a greater commitment to them.</tt><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <tt>  "<b>David Love</b>"</tt></span></div> </div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">= <Julius Bauer 2.jpg></div> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left:36.0pt"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </font></font>