Introduction
By Rich Samuels
By way of introduction: my wife and I are the owners of a George Steck/Duo-Art model NR reproducing piano that was assembled on or about October 9th, 1928 (per a pencil notation made by one of the workers on one of the hidden surfaces of the right-hand key block). The instrument has been in my wife's family since Uncle Jim, a west-side Chicago pharmacist, bootlegger and juice-loan artist (who died in 1937) presented it to his daughter Rosalyn as a 1928 Christmas gift. Cousin Rosalyn is in a nursing home; the piano is in ours. Thanks to decent maintainence over the years it spent in a child-free, cat-free environment, it plays rather well. We hope that a full, first-class restoration will begin shortly (additional info: I'm a historian by training; a broadcast journalist by profession).
Rich Samuels
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