<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Conover plates, also, are brutally, brutally heavy: an 1890's Conover upright has a plate that is about 3/4" thick, <br />at minimum! (One of the few uprights I can not lift an end of--- not even an inch.) <br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On 8/15/2012 10:20 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote:<BR>> What are the approx weights of these plates<BR>> <BR>> S&S D, B, L 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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