Broken plates was Grand Treble Bell

[Ron Nossaman]

>                 While following this thread all this talk of broken 
> plates ,I just wondered how many have ever encountered a broken plate in 
> a Steinway or If you'll admit to  breaking a plate by adjusting any of 
> the nose bolts or bell bolts. ANy body willing to fess up?
>            Dale

I'll fess up. I've seen broken plates in Steinways, but nothing I could say 
was obviously the result of nose bolt or bell bolt abuse. I haven't broken 
any plates by setting bearing with nose bolts or bell bolts - but then I 
don't try to set bearing that way in the first place, so I'm not likely to.

Ron N