Impressive Steinway Upright

[Alan R. Barnard]

What, please, is "a big laminated cut-off bar?"

Alan Barnard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: Impressive Steinway Upright


> I am the happy new owner of an 1892 Steinway 54" upright piano. It is
beautifully worn out and ready for remanufacture. It is impressive. It has
full sostenuto and a full grand-style 2-inch thick bent hardwood rim for the
soundboard and a big laminated cut-off bar. The plate extends to the piano
bottom and has a couple-inch wide flange that bolts to the bottom of the
piano (the flange is 90 degrees to the plate). I haven't taken it apart yet,
but I imagine it has the upper pinblock flange as well (my 1900 S&S upright
has this).
>
> It won't happen tomorrow, but someday this will indeed be quite a piano.
Anyone know what models have the bent rim? Why and when did Steinway stop
using the bent rim. The only other bent rim I have ever seen on an upright
was on a Bush & Lane.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
>
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