steinway archive photo-Tom

[Israel Stein]

At 12:00 PM 3/24/2007,<jimfrazee at msn.com> wrote:
>Subject: Re: steinway archive photo-Tom
>Message: 6
>
>Tom,
>
>That's the same way they do it today.  It's left out there for a 
>year or more, then taken to inside storage and finally into the kiln 
>drying process.

Actually, back then Steinway used to leave the wood out in the yard 
for several years - up to five. After they sold off their second 
plant and reduced their real estate holdings, they no longer had the 
space to do this - so they reduced the outdoor drying/seasoning to a 
year or so and started depending a lot more on kiln-drying. That 
explanation I got during a factory tour some years ago (when Bill 
Garlick was there).

Israel Stein