early model B plain wire gauges

[Porritt, David]

Well, my book (I couldn't find a date on it but it is something after
1986 I know) says that the "B" was introduced in 1872 as a 6'8" piano
then reintroduced as a 6'10.5" piano in 1884 with no subsequent changes.
73226 looks like it should be somewhere between 1892 - 94.  I normally
consider all those dates pretty squishy particularly since all years are
posted with very round numbers!

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Conrad Hoffsommer
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:18 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: RE: early model B plain wire gauges

Dave P,

At 06:35 AM 10/3/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Ron:
>
>My Steinway Technical Reference Guide says serial number below 73226
>
>Above 73226
>
>If the serial number of your piano is exactly 73226 I don't know what
to
>tell you!
>David M. Porritt

I had written:
>B(below 47000)
>
>B(47000 and up) [differences only]
>Conrad Hoffsommer



Apparently, they ($&$) checked their records a little more carefully 
between the 1969 version (which I got in '80) and whenever your's dates 
from... ;-}  47000 would be ~1882, 73226 would be ~1892.

At least the gage numbers are the same.




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