You are probably right, but this may be the point where they lost control of the quality. The soft capo's seemed to raise it's ugly head, post WW11. I kind of forgot about Wickham, Baldwin used both companies at different times. Regards Roger At 01:42 PM 22/01/2011, you wrote: >I could be wrong, of course, but didn't they switch to Wickham first? > >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 Roger >Jolly >Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:19 AM >To: caut at ptg.org >Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway D > > What era did Steinway close it's foundry and switch to the Kelly plate >company? Kelly plates are less than stellar, one reason that Baldwin >cancelled the contact with them. This explain why the Capo bars were harder >back then. > >Regards Roger
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