<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Marshall<div><br></div><div>The Steinway 45 is also known as a 1098 and is often feared by tuners due to challenges in tuning them.  We have 78 of them at Oklahoma City University and after 7 years of tuning 30 to 40 per semester (my share) that is not a tremendous issue for me.  The hammer butts do have both a flange screw and a small Butt plate that tightens against the center pin on 1098's of that era.  You do have to pull the action to access the screws in the butt plates.  They are subject to becoming loose due to seasonal changes in humidity.  Most of the time wobbling hammers can be traced to loose butt plates.  </div><div><br></div><div>The stencil issue will be best addressed by the dealer unless you do refinishing yourself and want to purchase Steinway lacquer and a brass decal from Steinway.</div><div><br></div><div>Norman Cantrell<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 1/25/13, Marshall Gisondi <i><pianotune05@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05@hotmail.com><br>Subject: [pianotech] a Steinway piano with a crooked stencil<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 7:30 PM<br><br><div id="yiv689972629"> <style></style> <div><div dir="ltr"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><br id="yiv689972629ecxFontBreak"></font> <font size="3" face="Arial">Hi Everyone,</font><br><font size="3" face="Arial">I have a customer who has a background in graphic design as well as her husband.  She purchased a Steinway 45 about 12 years ago.  She addressed an issues that you'll see in this picture.  The decal or stencil is crooked.  If yo u look at the s in Steinway and the last s in sons, the one s in Sons is a bit lower a "pika" lower she tells me.  I didn't notice it but when I got close I did. She brought it to their attention but didn't want a new piano because she liked the action in this particular one.  Is there anything that can be done to correct this name that goes slightly down hill?  </font><br><font size="3" face="Arial"></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">My other question is, do these pianos have the hammers with the screw set up like Yamaha because many of them are loose and there are cord loops or what appear to be by the way the hammer springs feel.  Her son is a jazz pianist and he takes out his stress on the piano as she put it to me today. lol  Does this mean autimatically that there is the screw that holds the hammer in place or is that not always the case. The other reason I believe it's screws holding the hammers in place it due to the fact that there are so many of them that are loose.  thanks everyone</font><br><font size="3" face="Arial">Marshall</font><br><font size="3" face="Arial"><img style="width:214px;height:159px;" class="yiv689972629ecxThumb" title="View photo.JPG in slide show" alt="View photo.JPG in slide show" width="214" height="159"><br id="yiv689972629ecxFontBreak"><br></font><br><br> <em><font size="3" face="Arial">Marshall Gisondi</font></em><br><em><font size="3" face="Arial">MARSHALL'S PIANO SERVICE</font></em><br><em><font size="3" face="Arial">215-510-9400</font></em><br><em><font size="3" face="Arial"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.phillytuner.com">http://www.phillytuner.com</a> </font></em><br><br> </div></div> </div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>