Sohmer

[Lynn Rosenberg]

Hi Del. Why don't these manufacturers take all this into consideration when
they design pianos??? I've been told about pianos you make, and have heard
nothing but good comments about them.  Why doesn't Steinway correct they're
problems concerning the 1098??? The us, and foreign piano makers aut to
start to take in consideration they're scale designs in making pianos.  Lynn
Rosenberg

----- Original Message -----
From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: Sohmer


> Lynn,
>
> I know very little of Sohmer's scale history. You'll have to go to the
> historians for that information. I do concur on the old Sohmer upright --
I
> remember rebuilding one of them that was quite a nice instrument.
>
> It is possible that Sohmer built a 45" piano in the past and discontinued
it
> along the way for some reason. If they lost the original plate pattern in
> the process they may not have been able to resurrect it. I just remember
> that this was being presented to the dealer as an all-new piano. Of
course,
> that could have simply meant that it had a new decal or a new pecky pecan
> finish if they followed the industry norms in such matters.
>
> I can see why the piano I described, however, would have some serious
> instability problems.  With a very short backscale through the
tenor/treble
> and a very long backscale through the bass, the tenor/treble would tend to
> fluctuate quite a bit more than the bass section.
>
> Del
>
> ---------------------------------
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lynn Rosenberg" <Lynn@eznet.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: October 19, 2000 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Sohmer
>
>
> >         I find you're comments very interesting.  The first Sohmers I
ever
> > saw were the 45 inch studio pianos.  I did see an old studio where the
> break
> > was csharp 29, and if my memory servs me correctly that piano was made
in
> > the 30's.  I've seen many old Sohmer uprights, that had excellent scale
> > design, and were very stable pianos.  In regards to Us manufacturers,
the
> > Aeolian plant out of East Rochester, made at one time George Steck,
> Fischer,
> > Chickering, Knabe and Mason & Hamlin.  In they're 45 inch studio pianos,
> all
> > but the Mason & Hamlin, they didn't make a 45 inch piano, everything was
> the
> > same, scale, plate, case, might have been fancier, but the big
difference
> > was the name plate.  If you took off the name plate, which was held on
by
> > screws, changed the name, fore example replace Steck with Fischer, the
> > pianos were the same.  they did that for years, different names but
> basicly
> > the same piano.  I get very suspicious when I see different makes of
> pianos
> > with the same scale breaks.  The Mason & Hamlin 50 as far as I'm
> concerned,
> > and I know this because I knew people who worked at Aeolian, was nothing
> > more than a 1940s Steck.  Lynn Rosenberg
> >
>
>
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