This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Everyone! Visited the oddest piano in my customer base today -- a Grotian-Steinweg = 110 console. It looked like it was built like a drum! The lower = portion of it (under the keybed) is round, looking much like the lower = half of a bass drum. The case was micro-thin, perhaps a mere 1/4" all = around of a laminate. The plate was massive. Just looking at it would = give just about any normal warm-blooded technician serious doubts about = its stability, but DANG! After 4 years since the last service, that A4 = was still dead-nuts on 440. Tuning this critter was little more than a = touch-up, or a light kissing around the edges. Curious note -- all of the bass strings had hexagonal cores. This = didn't look like a restringing job. The only other time I've seen this = was in a Russian piano that was cheaper than cheap with absolutely no = hint of stability. Needless to say, the bass tone wasn't much to write = home about. My sense is that with a change of bass strings and some = good voicing, this piano can be made to sound a lot better than it does = now ... but funds are currently limited. Anybody else seen one of these? I'll try to remember to bring some = pictures I took of it to Reno. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/22/c9/f3/bb/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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