Bell bolts on Steinways

[Richard Moody]

Horace, Del, List

	I was fortunate know Leonard Jared enough to be able to visit his shop
and remember some exhortations about screwing the bell bolt too tight
without taking into consideration a whole bunch of circumstances. Lenoard
was a great teacher, and would not set you up as one with a little
knowledge that might be dangerous. Like a good teacher he knew what I
knew, and didn't bother with stuff over my head. But boy did he have a way
of bringing up your level of knowldege, as if narrowing the great abyss
between what he knew and what you knew to a mere chasm. And if he were
here to day and could be induced to post to caut, I am sure he would
reply, "Well yes, Richard, but  your chasm is the Grand Canyon." That
would be typical Leonard, but what else can a great teacher say? 

	So if anyone has anything more to say about the bell bolts on Steinways,
like how should I inspect it the first time I see it on a new client's
piano, or assuming I just came on as a caut, what should I look for, from
piano to piano, (would that be from B to C to D ?) such advice would be
greatly appreciated. 

Richard Moody 

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> From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU>
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Letter to  PTG Technical Editor (fwd)
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:43 AM
> 
> 
> 
> That's why I said "relatively minute".  Like so much else in this
> work, one thing may serve several purposes.  I should note that
> common practice (in some circles) when installing a "CountryMan"
> pickup was the removal of both the bell bolt and the screwed down
> strut. I do not ever remember an instrument in which this made an
> appreciable difference in net tone.
> 
> Also, I picked up this habit from an old S&S frog, as well as Keith
> Hardesty and Leonard Jared.  Having used it as a process for
> some time now, I can relate no broken plates, and many, many
> "improved" instruments.
> Best!
> 
> Horace
> 
> 
> 

> >
> >
> >Horace Greeley wrote:
> >
> >> It might also be that the bell bolt is too tight.