This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Yesterday, I ran into a real puzzler! Steinway "B". Fallboard has brass = Steinway lettering w/New York & Hamburg listed. Three Pedals. 1908 = vintage. Plate looks like a New York in all ways. Round turned & fluted = legs. Round Tail. Everything looks like New York, until I pulled the = action. Even that looked pretty standard, for the age. Shanks, original, = round. Hammers have been replaced w/Steinway, vintage pre 70's. The = wippens do not have the jack alignment spoon/screw adjust. Hmmm? = everything looks normal.......Yikes! The wippen has assist springs, but = not as we are used to seeing them! The spring goes through a hole in the = tail of the wippen, horizontally. What the..???? I've never seen this = before.=20 So far, I've gleaned some history of the instrument. It was purchased = new, by a family in Germany. In the late 30's they fled Germany to = England. Later moved to the US. The owner retired to England, but left = the piano in the US. Piano was sold in the Estate, thingee. The current = owner is going to call Steinway, Monday to try an track this down, as to = origin. In the meantime, have any of you seen a Steinway of this vintage = with "turbo springs"? As the King of Siam said: "Is a puzzlement!" Regards, Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7d/4e/e2/b2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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