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<A title=pianoman@accessus.net =
href="mailto:pianoman@accessus.net">James
Grebe</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> August 29, 2003 5:15 =
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Mother in Law of =
All Cutoff
Bars</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Hi Phil,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">During the last part of George =
Steck's
life his obsession was to design a piano that would hold tune almost
indefinitely. He tried a lot of things including radically =
heavy
bracing and attaching the plate to the structure every place he =
thought it
would help. Too bad he did not live longer.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Jim</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>James Grebe , <BR> Piano =
Tuner-Technician,
Wood Artisan <BR>new website <A
=
href="http://www.JamesGrebe.com">WWW.JamesGrebe.com</A></FONT></DIV></B=
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size=3>Are you kidding?! By now we'd have cast iron rims, cast iron =
keybeds,
cast iron bellyrails, cast iron bracing and, probably, cast iron =
soundboards.
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size=3>You see, I've remanufactured a few Steck pianos--I know where =
he was
headed with this obsession. All he needed to do was to team up with =
Kranich
& Bach and he could have had cast iron keyframes as
well.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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