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  • 1.  cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-13-2017 13:57
    I just got a cool video link from Steinway.
    Stations of the Steinway - Steinway & Sons
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    Stations of the Steinway - Steinway & Sons
    A video tour of the Steinway & Sons factory in New York City
    View this on Steinway >


     There are short videos from different stations in the factory. One may not always agree with how an operation is done but it is nice to see how it is in fact done.




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    Karl Roeder
    Pompano Beach FL
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  • 2.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-13-2017 14:15
    I haven't had a chance to view just yet, but it should be interesting.  I wonder, though... While, as a Jewishly-leaning soul, I'm not particularly offended by the (intentional or otherwise) association with the Stations of the Cross, I wonder if there are others are, or if it's not just a wee bit tacky.  At least there are no specific prayers that need be uttered at the various stations, or, at least not by the viewer.  Not yet.

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    David Skolnik
    Hastings-on-Hudson NY
    914-231-7565
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  • 3.  RE: cool video

    Posted 06-13-2017 15:11
    Ghost rags William Bolcom. You will forever be haunted. It starts before death.
    He used to hang out with Eubie Blake, smoke and whatever else. Those rags are popular.
    He signed an LP of his for me after a work of his was premiered for organ at the Issac M. Wise Temple downtown Cincinnati. I was in line for a while. 
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    Benjamin Sloane
    Cincinnati OH
    513-257-8480
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  • 4.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-13-2017 16:32
    William Bolcom. Thanks, Benjamin. A wonderful choice. I could imagine people listening to the videos more than once just to hear the rag in the background. It doesn't hurt that the piano sounds so lovely.

    I've viewed all the segments now. It feels good to spend a little virtual time in the Mother Ship now and then. I worry about the future of a place so close to sea level as climate change accelerates. Well, they got through Sandy, at least.

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 5.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-13-2017 15:43
    David,

    As on Yid to another, I hear what you are saying. However, please consider that none less than Isaac Sadigursky, if memory serves, calls the different areas he has set up in his shop to do different tasks "stations". Now, I am pretty sure that he is not using that term in reference to the Stations of the Cross.

    FWIW,

    Alan

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    Alan Eder, RPT
    Herb Alpert School of Music
    California Institute of the Arts
    Valencia, CA
    661.904.6483
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  • 6.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-13-2017 16:09
    People in a factory probably talk about work stations as a matter of course. I doubt that Stations of the Cross occurred to any of them. It didn't occur to me, watching the videos, anyway.

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    Susan Kline
    Philomath, Oregon
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  • 7.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-13-2017 16:21
    Mr Skolnik,
    I'll confess (and perhaps you'll absolve me) when I saw the email it's the first thing I though of. Mea culpa. Mea magna culpa.

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    Karl Roeder
    Pompano Beach FL
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  • 8.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-14-2017 09:08
    It's the first thing I thought of as well.  I was not offended, more amused that they take themselves so seriously to posit that the factory is a chapel.

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    Zeno Wood
    Brooklyn, NY
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  • 9.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-14-2017 20:47
    Seriously Mr. Wood?

    "more amused that they take themselves so seriously to posit that the factory is a chapel."

    A chapel?  Nay.  A temple.  Perhaps to Euterpe herself.  Personally I can't set foot in those buildings without a slight bit of awe dancing just outside my conscious thought processes.

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    Karl Roeder
    Pompano Beach FL
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  • 10.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-15-2017 00:31
    Thanks for posting. The bridge pinning part clearly shows the bit they use to drill the bridge pins is too big. The pins practically fall into the holes. I drill for tighter fit and have very few false beats.

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    Edward McMorrow
    Edmonds WA
    425-299-3431
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  • 11.  RE: cool video

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 06-15-2017 00:58
    Many factories use "size-on-size" drilling to make it easier to insert the bridge pins. The emphasis is on ease (speed) of manufacture rather than quality of performance.

    ddf

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    Email  ddfandrich@gmail.com
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