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                            Ron Nossaman &lt;rnossaman@cox.net&gt;;                            <br>
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                                <span style="font-weight:bold:">Subject:</span>
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                            Re: [pianotech] plate weights                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On 8/15/2012 10:20 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote:<BR>&gt; What are the approx weights of these plates<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; S&amp;S D, B, L&nbsp;  what's the heaviest one could expect.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Another passing observation from the cheap seats, to aid (complicate) the plate hoist calibration process.<BR><BR>Ron N<BR></td>
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