[pianotech] plate weights

[Dale Erwin]

Yeah... and then there is the Mason & Hamlin plates in general. Real pigs. or is that pig iron?
The BB out weighs a D Stwy


Dale Erwin R.P.T.
Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.


 
  





-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 8:58 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] plate weights


On 8/15/2012 10:20 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote:
> What are the approx weights of these plates
>
> S&S D, B, L   what's the heaviest one could expect.

It's a shocker, I know, but there are actually other pianos than 
Steinway out there, with plates far more heavily built than the flimsy, 
squirrely D plate that makes a vanishingly small pitch change such a 
futile adventure in tail chasing. I never actually weighed them off, but 
my back and chain hoist tells me that the a Baldwin SD-10 B plate weighs 
SUBSTANTIALLY more than any Steinway D ever aspired to.

Another passing observation from the cheap seats, to aid (complicate) 
the plate hoist calibration process.

Ron N

 
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