Walter still buys plates from OS Kelly. (And, yes, the foundry work has improved over the past few years.) M&H plates come from a Chinese foundry. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 3:26 PM To: College & University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] Mythbusters On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:35 PM, David Ilvedson wrote: > Wait...Kelly producing all the plates is a plus? Isn't one of the > real problems with NY STeinways are the inconsistent plates...i.e. > string height problems? That isn't a good thing... Steinway now owns Kelly plates. Production values have gone up considerably. Agraffes are much more consistently spaced, for instance. Now they can actually control the process, rather than deal with a vendor. If I'm not mistaken, they ship plates to Hamburg now, as well as supplying NY - and others, like probably Walter and Mason (though I don't actually know that - those guys might purchase from Asia. But I think Kelly is the only plate manufacturer in North America now). Similarly with Kluge: they own it now. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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