Whadayathink of this piano sound?

[Ron Nossaman]

>  I also find 
> that it doesn't have the Bosendorfer-ish quality I thought I deteceted 
> on the tiny laptop speakers, and I can hear the Steinway pedigree, but 
> the piano sounding very fresh and lovely and lively.

No, you don't. There's very little in that piano that's still 
Steinway.


> The old Steinway B's seem to restore so well. 

This one isn't remotely restored - it's heavily redesigned. It 
has a new string scale, new bridges, bass separated from the 
tenor, with a nine note transition bridge in the low tenor, 
new soundboard, with more ribs than the original, fanned and 
deeply crowned for support with very low panel compression, 
extra rim and belly rail bracing, a big bass cutoff, and a 
treble fish. The plate is also modified with vertical hitch 
pins, and elimination of both the front and rear tuned 
duplexes. That's not Steinway you hear in there, it's my way 
and Kent's way. This dog has a different pedigree.

Ron N