<!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 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff><DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>I thought it was a NY Steinway and he hated Hamburgs?  I remember when I worked for a piano rental company and we had our Hamburg D on the stage at the Opera House in SF.  Horowitz was trying out the house Steinway, I believe, but it might have been his own...Roy Foreman was the SF Symphony technician at the time...I was peaking through a stage hole and Horowitz went over to our Hamburg and played a bit and really stuck his nose up afterwards.  I remember Roy trying to talk Horowitz into taking him with him when he toured...;-]</DIV> <DIV align=left> </DIV> <DIV align=left>David I.</DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original message ----------------------------------------><BR>From: jphouweling <<A href="mailto:jphouweling@dccnet.com">jphouweling@dccnet.com</A>><BR>To: <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR>Received: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:12:42 -0700<BR>Subject: light weight</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>I am interested in the piano that Horowitz played on. Could anyone tell me the dw/uw of his piano. I understand it was a hamburg steinway that had to be modified. Does anyone know how it was done and/or the design of this action.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>        thank you from delta B.C.      </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>                     jack</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>