Grand Cleaning

[Farrell]

Fair enough. But what would you call the big gold metal thingee in a piano 
if it were made of plate (flat-as-a-pancake) steel? Iron frame?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> And not to be over-critical of American usage, that hard metal thing is 
> called in England the iron frame or metal frame, and Theodore Steinway 
> refers to it as the metal frame.  A plate by definition is flat or 
> sometimes domed and is a totally inapt term to use for the metal frame.
SNIP
> JD