John: If you are not seriously determined to replace the board, you might rethink that. The piano may have "measured crown" (vague meaning there), but it might well be false crown with the board suspended by the strings across the bridges. You would be restringing over the old board which may well collapse further upon de-stringing, and then be asked to support new bearing. And how are you measuring bearing, if I might ask? Just a thought. Otherwise, go for it! :-) Paul In a message dated 3/13/2010 6:40:50 P.M. Central Standard Time, a440 at bresnan.net writes: Hi list, I have an opportunity to pick up an 1881 or 1882 6 foot Steinway Grand for restoration. (Serial #47546) It has 85 keys, by the way, and another interesting thing is that the shift pedal moves the keys to the left, to the bass side. The action looks fairly conventional by today's standards. It's in need (mostly) of a complete action rebuild, dampers, a pin block, stringing, and key tops. The case is dinged up a mite, but all there and should be refinished. The scale seems to be very good, judging by my Tunelab tuning curve, and the sustain is pretty good, too. Soundboard has no serious cracks and I did find crown measured in a couple of locations. Downbearing everywhere on each bridge, too. Should I make an offer? I'd be farming out (shipping from Montana) some of the work, but I'd try and tackle a great deal of it myself. whaddaya think? worth a venture? or should I stay away from it? Thanks, John Dorr, RPT Helena, MT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100313/877f10f7/attachment.htm>
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