At 10:48 am -0700 9/6/07, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: >Well, now you make me wonder. I have all of the photographs of this >piano labeled "Bosendorfer" but I could be wrong. I did this piano >some fifteen years ago. > >I don't have a picture of the finished piano but I've attached one >with the soundboard being glued in so you can see the shape. As I >recall the piano was pre-1880s. I could probably find the build date >with some searching. I haven't much experience with Bösendorfers but I thought that all their grands in the 19th century, and even later, were Viennese. I had one of these from about 1899 and by then they were using a separate heavy iron top bridge in the treble just like more recent non-Viennese models, and it had no agraffes at all, using a half-round pressure bar, like an upright, right down to the bass. The soundboard floated at the front, stiffened by an arched spruce rail about 2" x 1/2" and had a pronounced crown -- I think I still have it somewhere. The Viennese action slides up ramps each side of the key-bottom and the damper action (a section of which I have kept) is a simply removed unit above the strings. So nothing in your pictures suggests Bösendorfer to me. JD
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