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From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net><br>
To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 8:58 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] plate weights<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On 8/15/2012 10:20 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote:
> What are the approx weights of these plates
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> 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.
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