The old time tuners at Steinway really liked to bend the pins while tuning...;-] David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/19/01 at 5:21 PM Ron Nossaman wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Tradition. >>> >>> >>> Conrad >> >> >> >> Is this the real reason, or just your opinion of why they holes are >recessed? >> >> >> Wim > > > >That would be a yes, and a no. The holes are almost certainly *still* >countersunk because of tradition, but there had to have been some sort of >reasoning behind having done it in the first place and establishing the >tradition - whatever we might think of the reasoning now. I've wondered >about >it too, and didn't see it listed among Steinway's patents. Seems like they >would have been proud enough of doing something to no apparent purpose that >takes extra time in the manufacturing process to make a marketing point of >it. > > >Ron N
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