Steinway legs & castors

[Greg Granoff RPT]

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Richard,
I just went through a repair of the identical problem with one of our
D's.  The instrument was on an old Colson truck, and even though not
particularly sprung, we bought a new truck (planned to anyway).  The new
trucks (from Pianotek) for D's and B's seem to be made of thicker
material and are much more stable, making this sort of problem less
likely, I suspect.   I personally would not be inclined to modify the
leg-- what if you moved to a new truck?  If you modify anything, think
about maybe shimming the plate the leg sits on.  Far less work in the
end.

Greg Granoff  RPT
Humboldt State University

Richard West wrote:

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>> Hi,
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> I have a puzzling, related problem.  I have a Steinway B on a Colson
> truck.  The last time I serviced the piano I noticed that a fairly
> sizeable chunk of one of the legs was split off close to the bottom of
> the leg.  It seems as though the majority of the weight of the piano
> rests on the back part of the spade leg because the weight of the
> piano pushes down the end of the truck which puts a slight, but still
> significant tilt to the end of the truck right where the leg sits on
> the leg socket.  In other words the bottom of the leg doesn't actually
> sit flat on the socket of the truck.  Gluing the wood back wouldn't be
> a problem, but I'm afraid it would just split again because the angle
> of the leg socket.  The truck itself is not overly bowed up in the
> center.  In fact I go to some pains to try to keep the truck flat when
> I load a piano on a truck.  If the truck isn't flat, it doesn't roll
> as well.  Has anyone sanded the bottom of the leg to match the 2 or 3
> degree angle that the weight of the piano forces onto the truck?  Any
> other solutions?  Right now the leg is stable.  I don't think there's
> any danger of any more splittling.
>
> Richard West, U of NE
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