[CAUT] Steinway uprights

[michelle stranges]

OH MY LORDY..

You are my hero.

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Thanx!

:)
Michelle

--On Friday, November 19, 2004 1:29 PM -0600 Steve Carver 
<steve-carver@uiowa.edu> wrote:

> At our school, we have 28 Steinway uprights on inventory and while none of
> these pianos are heavily used, I felt obligation to maximize their useful
> life. So we decided to see what could be done within reason to improve
> these 35-40 year pianos.
>
> We perform the following work on one upright each year. Grind off
> completely the plate bar in the upper two treble sections; replace the bar
> with pressure bar felt; polish friction points thoroughly; pull all treble
> bridge pins and tighten as necessary (epoxy); restring (usually) with 2
> and 3/8ths long, #3/0 pins; new hammers and damper felts. (We do not
> replace the bass strings). This work has made these instruments MUCH more
> technician friendly. They are more tunable, less wild strings, improved
> tone with Abel hammers. Much of this work is done by my part time
> assistant. After doing 4-5 of these, we plan to continue this improvement
> because the end result seems to justify the labor and relatively small
> cost. _______________________________________________
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