<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bechstein Plates are very light and thin...<div>Go figure???</div><div>According to the BOOK,plates supposed  to be Heavy!!</div><div>But piano didn't read the Book!</div><div><br></div><div>Isaac S.<br><div><div>On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:09 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">Yeah... and then there is the </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason</font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> & Hamlin plates in general. Real pigs. or is that pig iron?</font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">The BB out weighs a D Stwy<br> </font><br> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; clear: both; "><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; ">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Ron Nossaman <<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>><br> To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 8:58 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] plate weights<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_2047ad9e-e53e-4b7d-8086-537954ecfb96" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On 8/15/2012 10:20 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote: > What are the approx weights of these plates > > S&S D, B, L what's the heaviest one could expect. It's a shocker, I know, but there are actually other pianos than Steinway out there, with plates far more heavily built than the flimsy, squirrely D plate that makes a vanishingly small pitch change such a futile adventure in tail chasing. I never actually weighed them off, but my back and chain hoist tells me that the a Baldwin SD-10 B plate weighs SUBSTANTIALLY more than any Steinway D ever aspired to. Another passing observation from the cheap seats, to aid (complicate) the plate hoist calibration process. Ron N </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </div> </font></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>