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Steinway Duo-Art 9' 6" Concert Grand Pianos
By Rob Case

[ Bruce Grimes wrote in 041119 MMDigest:

> Well, Aeolian built ten 9' 6" Steinway Duo-Arts ...

I've been wondering for years how many of these behemoths are still
around and who has one..., and how many still retain their Duo-Art
mechanisms?  And while I'm on it, who bought these pianos originally?

These pianos must have been the ones built to show off the Duo-Art
for concerts with orchestras, therefore specially encoded rolls had to
be made for them for the dynamics to work effectively enough to fill a
concert hall.  Does anybody know what happened to them all?

Rob Case
Stevens Point, Wisconsin


(Message sent Tue 23 Nov 2004, 02:16:51 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

Key Words in Subject:  6, 9, Concert, Duo-Art, Grand, Pianos, Steinway

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