1969 Steinway L CBS?

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Dale wrote: 
> I also appreciate your comments on  S&S from your  largely impartial and
> introspective point of view. I hope the company doesn't cook there own
>goose  with the objections I'm hearing from many.

     Well, I don't know what they are thinking, but I have a question to ask 
to all the "Steinway experienced" among us.   Am I the only one finding 
damaged front pins in the new pianos?  is anybody out there looking for them? 
 Anybody out there wondering why the keybushings on some notes are noisey 
after the first year of play? Out of the six new grands purchased by 
Vanderbilt last year, EVERY ONE of them had at least 20 damaged front pins. 
This is due to the the key spacer being used above the punchings.  This was a 
problem I contacted them about several years ago when I was asked to examine 
several new pianos before private purchasers would take them. They paid me to 
repin them then, and they have paid to repin them now.   How hard would it be 
to go to the line, and remove the sharp edged tool from whatever careless 
worker is using it?  
    
   Of more concern to me as a tuner has been the increasing torque on the 
tuning pins.  Anybody can absolutely prevent loose pin problems by 
excessively tight pins.  That is what Baldwin has been doing for years, and I 
have heard from numerous techs that that is why they don't recommend Baldwin 
pianos, they don't want to tune them!  
     There is no need at all for the pins in the top octave to be tighter 
than those in the bass, yet I have measured over 175 inch/lbs on some of 
these, and I consider that an artless job of block/pin drilling.  Where is 
the finesse?  
Regards, 
Ed Foote RPT