M&H screw stringer back

[pianoman]

 Hi Bill,
Early in my career there was a M & H large grand screwstringer floating
around St. Louis.  I tuned it once and remember tonally that is was nothing
very impressive considering its' size.  For those of you who have tuned the
screwstringer grands, are they the equals of Gertz and after.
A question I have never seen answered is:
1.  Were the earliest example of M & H pianos all screwstringers?
2.  When did they switch from normal to SC and then back again.
3.  What came first the SC grands or uprights?
>James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis, MO. USA, Earth
pianoman@inlink.com
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> From: Maxpiano <Maxpiano@aol.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: M&H screw stringer
> Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 3:28 AM
> 
> List -
> 
> The only M&H screw stringer I ever tuned was a 7-foot grand that was in
Victor
> Herbert's home in Harrison, Maine.  That was 40 years ago, and I was
fresh out
> of college.  Shortly after, President Eisenhower had Universal Military
> Training plans for me ("greeting...") and I never got back to tune it
after
> that.
> 
> Bill Maxim, RPT