[CAUT] Steinway or Forgery?

[Ron Nossaman]

Fred Sturm wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> 
>> Are you really under the impression that Ron's piano was just a well 
>> prepped stock Samick? That would truly put you at the far boundary of 
>> "doesn't have the vaguest idea what he's talking about".
> 
>     No, but he did start with a production belly in some instances -  
> certainly the one he showed at Reno. I was impressed. Maybe you weren't.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm


In both the piano in Reno, and the one in Rochester, Ron used 
a stock Samick laminated *panel*, not belly. The string scale, 
bridges, rib scale, cutoff bar, and whatever additional 
bracing he did to the rim were his own, and decidedly not 
stock. Yes, I was impressed.
Ron N