Monthly Archives: December 2014

The Steinway Duplex scale, designed for its sympathetic resonance, can occasionally be too resonant – so that on this instrument (Steinway model O), I needed to weave in baize to the lowest of the (duplex) strings, because all the ‘C’ … Continue reading →

Another of the classic ‘best of’ models, this Bluthner O/D – often misguidedly dismissed as a second-class instrument, just because it uses the early style of damping in uprights: over-damping. In fact, when built as superbly as this, with long … Continue reading →

Quite simply, one of the best uprights I have ever worked on: