Facts and nots : was Recommend Rebuilder?

[John Ross]

I guess the older Steinways were not manufactured correctly, as I don't 
recollect any mention of this before.  So obviously, they just learned to 
make them correctly. :-)
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:00 AM
Subject: RE: Facts and nots : was Recommend Rebuilder?


> Andrew Anderson said: "Steinway bluntly says in their technical
> reference manual for technicians that compression ridges are not a
> problem and are a sign of a good board under ideal compression."
>
> So should we be disappointed if we get a piano that doesn't develop
> compression ridges?
>
> dave
>
> David M. Porritt
> dporritt at smu.edu
>