Shannon's been gone a few years, and Chad Fry left this spring. Terry Walsh is now parts head. I'd guess twalsh at steinway.com, but I don't have his card where I am now. On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:09 AM, wimblees at aol.com wrote: > Bob > > E-mail Shanon Rebele at SRebele at steinway.com. You'll get through > much faster. I do believe the "topstick tongue" is the same as the > short stick, and it comes in a satin ebony finish. > BTW, when I was at UA, a lot of voice performers wanted the lid > lower than the short stick, but not all the way down. So for a while > they put a black board eraser under the lid. Then someone suggested > I cut a nickel lid prop down to about 5", and screw it on the lid > prop. Worked great. I put one on three of the performing pianos, and > they were used constantly > Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT > Piano Tuner/Technician > Mililani, Oahu, HI > 808-349-2943 > Author of: > The Business of Piano Tuning > available from Potter Press > www.pianotuning.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Hull <hullfam5 at yahoo.com> > To: caut at ptg.org > Sent: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 6:41 pm > Subject: [CAUT] topstick > > I need to order a short stick for a Steinway D. In the parts > catalog, I see a > topstick tongue. Is that the same thing as the short stick? > Also, it comes as ebony finished if wanted - I wonder if that will > be gloss or > satin. If it's high polish I'll have to rub it out to a satin. > Steinway parts > dept. just had an answering machine and they haven't called back. > > > Bob Hull > > > Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090918/200d7fd7/attachment-0001.htm>
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