Need a Technician in MN.

[John Musselwhite]

At 08:46 PM 8/1/1999 -0800, Kit wrote:

>As for the good advice on possible problems and cures with an ancient
>Steinway upright, thanks for all the information.  The gist of the messages
>seems to be that if it needs lots of action work it will be very expensive
>and time consuming.  

There was one piece of advice that may not have made it to the list.

One of the nicest old S&S uprights I ever played had a Fandrich action in it
(http://www.fandrich.com/html/actions.htm). It may be possible to have an
entirely new Fandrich action retro-fitted into it, which may make an already
very good upright piano even better. While it may be slightly more expensive,
especially if it has to be shipped somewhere, it may also be worthwhile in the
long run. 

I'd been thinking of doing that with my 1884 Model E before it was reduced to a
pile of ashes in a fire last February... <sigh>  A scan of the newspaper
clipping about the fire including a couple of pictures can be found at
http://www.musselwhite.com/pub/piano/fire.jpg  if anyone's interested.
There is
an almost identical Model E in the new Chinook Keyboard Museum here in Calgary,
so at least I know what it could have been like.

I may as well mention again that other pictures arising from the #pianotech IRC
discussions can be accessed at http://www.musselwhite.com/pub/piano/  and the
pub/midi directory contains some of the midi files we have been playing lately.

                John


John Musselwhite, RPT -  Calgary, Alberta Canada
Registered Piano Technician   http://www.musselwhite.com
email: john@musselwhite.com - blues@musselwhite.com