[pianotech] Screens under counterbearing bars

[Ron Nossaman]

On 7/24/2012 8:10 PM, Ed Foote wrote:

> Hmm, I have taken 76 plates out of Steinways, so far.  I have never
> seen a screen under a bearing bar.

Me either, but then I have no idea what's out there that I haven't yet 
seen. Most likely seems to me to be noise avoidance, though it seems an 
odd choice of material. One thing for sure, like everything else 
Steinway ever did, we'll never really know, and it'll still be a guess.

Ron N