From: "C. E. Hood" <hood@uwplatt.edu> Date: Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:23:41 PM US/Central To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Help needed for old Steinway A friend who teaches music at Greensboro has written me the attached note - can anybody help him or suggest anything? They are interested in having the piano back in its original, not modernized, condition. Write him, Andy Willis, at aswillis@uncg.edu. Thanks!! Margaret Hood Fortepianos.pair.com From: Andrew Willis <aswillis@uncg.edu> Date: Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:39:22 PM US/Central To: HOOD@uwplatt.edu Subject: greetings from greensboro Hi, Margaret, Just read your suggestion to Anne Beetem about 19th c hip restorations and inquiring via the PTG list or the College & University Piano Techs list. Am wondering if there might be any help out there via those avenues for a piano that George Lucktenberg gave us here at UNCG last year. It's an 1869 Steinway concert grand (picture attached), whose action was at some point replaced with a modern setup. All the balance points were moved way back on the keys resulting in an incredibly heavy touch, which is both impractical for playing and historically irrelevant. I keep wondering if there might be a contemporaneous Steinway rocker action lying about somewhere having been surgically removed from its piano, or still inhabiting an unrestorable wreck, which could be installed in this piano; I'd love to start moving it back to its proper condition. Do you think this would be worth asking on these lists? Can anyone join them? If so, could you steer me in the direction of the list owners? Thanks much! Andrew Photo at: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/eb/59/e1/f7/steinway8.jpg Alternate: http://tinyurl.com/t3be
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