steel soundboard was Re: once more an opinion about Petrof -- And, another

Wimblees@AOL.COM Wimblees@AOL.COM
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:53:05 EDT


John Fortiner writes

 > I had a lady phone me yesterday about an " antique" player piano that she
 > strongly maintained had an all steel soundboard.  I am just curious to
 > know WHO showed her the "all steel" soundboard. :-(
 >
 > John R. Fortiner >>


John:

Actually, there were two pianos made with steel soundboards. I serviced one 
about 15 years ago. It was made in Sweden. I have the paper work for the 
patent on this thing. I brought this info up on the Internet about 3 years 
ago, and a tech in Sweden knows where the other piano is.

The sound of the piano is very much like a steel drum band from the 
Caribbean. Very interesting. I took some pictures of the piano, but someone 
stole the camera before I could develop the pictures.

Willem Blees


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