<!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 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: black = 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">----- Original Message = ----- <o:p></o:p> <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; PADDING-BOTTOM: = 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: = 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; = mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; = mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"> <DIV style="font-color: black">>>From: <A = title=fordpiano@earthlink.net href="mailto:fordpiano@earthlink.net">Phillip Ford</A> = <o:p></o:p></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">>>To: <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> = <o:p></o:p> <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">>>Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 = 12:52 PM<o:p></o:p> <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">>>Subject: Re: OT Olde = Aeroplanes <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt"><o:p></o:p>  <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">>Didn't the Steinway folks make gliders = during WWII? >>Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician >>Uh, = oh.  Another black mark against Steinway.  They're the ones = that used up all of our trees. >>Phil F _______________________________________________ >>pianotech= list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</A> <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">  <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt"><o:p></o:p>  <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">    Yes, they made the CG-4A = gliders, while the factory in Hamburg made wooden airplane decoys, bunk beds, and = rifle stock (for the Nazis).  The New York factory, besides gliders, also = briefly produced a music and voice-paging product for factories, similar to = Muzak, called the "Operadic Plant Broadcaster".  They also made wooden = caskets for a while, which was a huge money-loser. <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">   Also during the war they made the = Steinway Victory model upright, or the ODGI (Olive Drab Government Issue) field = piano, “a 40-inch upright that sat flat on the floor, with no legs, looking like a = box with a shelf sticking out. ... This 500-pound piano was transported in = its own special olive-green packing case, with handles that made it easy for = four soldiers to carry.  The = case included a set of tuning tools, a book of instructions, sheet music = (ranging from Protestant hymns to advanced boogie-woogie), and some spare parts.” <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">           Above info. and quote from “Steinway & Sons”, by Richard = K. Lieberman, Yale University Press, 1995 <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">I found this an excellent book, very = informative; includes the historical "scandals" --  an entertaining = read. <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">  = <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">    (Has anyone ever seen the = book of instructions for the "army piano"?  I imagine the tuning procedure described is probably amusing) <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt">    --David Nereson, = RPT <P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: = medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt = 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: = medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; = mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in = 4.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></DIV>  <o:p></o:p></DIV></BODY></HTML>