[pianotech] S&S B

[Ron Nossaman]

On 10/8/2011 6:11 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
> I’m well aware of the problems Steinway pianos had during the era you
>  (your client) is wanting to avoid. God knows I worked on enough of
> them when they were new, or nearly so. Still, you (they) are looking
> for a core piano to rebuild and my question is, “Why does its age
> matter?” I have a late 1960s Model L at the moment that I’m in the
> middle of. I’m doing the same work to this piano that I’d do with
> just about any 40 to 50+ year old Steinway. I’m replacing the
> soundboard and bridges (and cleaning up the stringing scale), I’m
> replacing the pinblock, tuning pins and strings, I’m replacing
> dampers and damper action, the wippens, the hammershanks and hammers,
> etc. About the only things left of the original will be the belly and
> that is well made and sound, the flyparts all fit and why should I
> care when it was originally put together? The results will be the
> same no matter when it was first put together.
>
> ddf


At last, the bottom line. If it's to be rebuilt by realistic criteria, 
and with a budget appropriate to same, then when it was built and what 
it was before the resurrection is irrelevant, since it will not finally 
be what it originally was.
Ron N