<!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 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes they did, George. I have a hunch = the action and keyframe were standard though. Not bad sounding either. Indeed their = uprights - they made several models - weren't bad sounding considering the lengths = they went to depart from the norm.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Literature. I have a considerable = selection to choose from but in the main I turn to Reblitz for run-of -the-mill = answers. For S&S though one has to go to Max Matthias "Steinway Service Manual" , = pub: Verlag Erwin Bochinsky. Or: Deitz Steinway Regulation. pub: verlag das Musikinstrument Frankfurt. I have the second edition and it's comimg to = pieces being a paperback.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you like the oldies with a bit of = pepper and salt there's Alfred H. Howe "Scientific Piano Tuning and Servicing" pub: = APSCO! and finally K.T.Kennedy: "Piano Action Repairs and Maintenence". pub: = Kaye & Ward, London and A.S.Barnes & Co S.Brunswick & N.Y. These last = two are the one's I used to pore over while waiting for something like Reblitz = to arrive. I now simply have fond memories of their contents, but not to be = taken seriously. Get stuck into Max Matthias it is not very large and half of = it is in German....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards from a newly cut lawn on a = sunny and windy day in a Sussex Village.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now I must go to Glyndebourne to = prepare a piano for tomorrow's rehearsals of Julius Cesare. A=415 Vallotti temperament.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G.(UK)</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=gbart@thezone.net href="mailto:gbart@thezone.net">George = Bartlett</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 22, 2005 7:00 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Lindner = grand</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Michael,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you really mean that LInder = actually made a grand "Piano" ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As you know there wasn't anything = grand about their uprights. You mentioned that they have wooden keys, is the = action the same as the uprights or is it all plastic?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>WEATHER REPORT:   Weather = here is still fog and rain and cold.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No,  I don't live in as rural an = area as depected in the movie. You know what movie directors do is over-kill = in trying to make the thing more Newfie than it could ever really be. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>George</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael, I am looking for a good book = on Grand Piano Regulation.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have John Travis and Authur Reblitz</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>they are very good but I am looking = for more detail</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as for JOhn Travis, he sometimes adds = confusion to the very simple of operations.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you have any ideas, get back to me = when you get a chance. Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=Byeway222@aol.com href="mailto:Byeway222@aol.com">Byeway222@aol.com</A> ; <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 21, 2005 = 6:56 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Lindner grand</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List and Richard of Cardiff = - who said:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV>The topic of Lindner pianos cropped up in the Pianotech list a = short while ago.  Did you ever see the Lindner Grand?? It was a super = modernistic design like a harpsichord on a central 'pillar' which = also incorporated the pedals. It was, to my recollection, = straight/oblique strung</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes that's the one. I do have one = in my care, though I haven't touched it for a very long time - twenty years or = so. It was memorable enough for me to exclaim when I first saw it "I didn't = know they made grands!" It is just as you described. I have a small triangular William de Blaise Harpsichord which lives (minus legs) = under my S&S "A". It is of the same shape and size as that = Lindner grand. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I cannot remember anything = more pertinent to it though - what the action etc was like etc. though = the keys, I think, were standard. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards from a wind-blown sometimes = sunny sometimes rainy Sussex Village</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G.(UK)</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>