<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Everyone!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Visited the oddest piano in my customer = base today -- a Grotian-Steinweg 110 console.  It looked like it was built = like a drum!  The lower portion of it (under the keybed) is round, looking = much like the lower half of a bass drum.  The case was micro-thin, = perhaps a mere 1/4" all around of a laminate.  The plate was massive.  = Just looking at it would give just about any normal warm-blooded technician = serious doubts about its stability, but DANG!  After 4 years since the last = service, that A4 was still dead-nuts on 440.  Tuning this critter = was little more than a touch-up, or a light kissing around the = edges.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Curious note -- all of the bass strings = had hexagonal cores.  This didn't look like a restringing job.  = The only other time I've seen this was in a Russian piano that was cheaper = than cheap with absolutely no hint of stability.  Needless to say, the = bass tone wasn't much to write home about.  My sense is that with a change of = bass strings and some good voicing, this piano can be made to sound a lot = better than it does now ... but funds are currently limited.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anybody else seen one of these?  = I'll try to remember to bring some pictures I took of it to Reno.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Z! Reinhardt  RPT<BR>Ann = Arbor  MI<BR><A href="mailto:diskladame@provide.net">diskladame@provide.net</A></FONT><= /DIV></BODY></HTML>