[pianotech] plate weights

[Isaac Sadigursky]

Bechstein Plates are very light and thin...
Go figure???
According to the BOOK,plates supposed  to be Heavy!!
But piano didn't read the Book!

Isaac S.
On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:09 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:

> 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
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> Dale Erwin R.P.T.
> Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.
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> -----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
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> On 8/15/2012 10:20 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote:
> > What are the approx weights of these plates
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> > S&S D, B, L   what's the heaviest one could expect.
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> It's a shocker, I know, but there are actually other pianos than
> Steinway out there, with plates far more heavily built than the  
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> squirrely D plate that makes a vanishingly small pitch change such a
> futile adventure in tail chasing. I never actually weighed them off,  
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> my back and chain hoist tells me that the a Baldwin SD-10 B plate  
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> SUBSTANTIALLY more than any Steinway D ever aspired to.
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> Another passing observation from the cheap seats, to aid (complicate)
> the plate hoist calibration process.
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> Ron N

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