Chickering Square Help

[Greg Granoff]

Roger,
If you send the appropriate samples, Bob Marinelli at Pianotek will make nice
duplicates for you --- all lightweight cores, etc.  You'll still have to
shave them down in that odd way that squares use, but that should be
challenging and fun...:-)  I completed a Steinway square earlier this year
for a crazy customer like yours and they were great.
Greg Granoff

rchayden1@juno.com wrote:

> OK Folks, you can shoot me.
>
> I've got an 1851 Chick. Square whose owner was so happy with how I got
> everything working, that he decided to pay me to make it look like new!!
>  (I just wanted it to go away!)
>
> Who out there knows the best way to restring these things?
> Source of the right bass strings, possibly rescaling since new wire ain't
> buttery like this old stuff.
> And can hammers get recovered?  England used to do it . .??
>
> It's not my first Square, but as long as I have you to bother . . . .
>
> I know there is somebody out there doing these regularly.
>
> Thanks,  Roger Hayden, RPT