Agree completely. However, as I'm sure you are aware, no matter how much coaching some of our clients receive, they will still favor certain things. For example, why does it even have to be a Steinway. I brought that very question up with this client. If you're going to rebuild a carcass, the options hardly need to be limited to a Steinway. And yet.............<div>
<br></div><div>Therefore, no CBS era Steinway will do. I'm sure you can empathize.</div><div><br></div><div>William R. Monroe</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Delwin D Fandrich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:del@fandrichpiano.com">del@fandrichpiano.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy">I’m well aware of the problems Steinway pianos had during the era you (your client) is wanting to avoid. God knows I worked on enough of them when they were new, or nearly so. Still, you (they) are looking for a core piano to rebuild and my question is, “Why does its age matter?” I have a late 1960s Model L at the moment that I’m in the middle of. I’m doing the same work to this piano that I’d do with just about any 40 to 50+ year old Steinway. I’m replacing the soundboard and bridges (and cleaning up the stringing scale), I’m replacing the pinblock, tuning pins and strings, I’m replacing dampers and damper action, the wippens, the hammershanks and hammers, etc. About the only things left of the original will be the belly and that is well made and sound, the flyparts all fit and why should I care when it was originally put together? The results will be the same no matter when it was first put together.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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