[CAUT] Harpsichord popping strings

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Most of the transposing harpsichords I've worked on only have a single shift.  More shifts = more cost. More cost = fewer buyers. As they say, "do the math".  


Conrad Hoffsommer




From: jim_busby at byu.edu
To: caut at ptg.org
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:58:48 -0600
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Harpsichord popping strings
















Hi, 

 

I’ll show my ignorance here because I only have 4
harpsichords, and only one transposes, but don’t all “transposing”
harpsichords go from A440 down to A415, and then also to A392? I’ve always
thought that A415 was basically to accommodate German period instruments and
the A392 to accommodate French composers and the corresponding instruments . (Lully,
Couperin, etc.) Do most transposing keyboards only go down one note? What about
the French? (Please don’t answer that <G>) And is the “upper”
always A440?  You harpsichord guys cut me some slack here. This is
certainly something a CAUT should know.

 

Thanks.

 

Jim

 

 

 



From:
caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dennis
Johnson

Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 3:21 PM

To: caut at ptg.org

Subject: Re: [CAUT] Harpsichord popping strings



 

Hi-



That means also when you are in the 440 position key #1 uses wire #2. 
Unless the builder added one more unison set at the top then last note in the
treble will not have any wire to puck so no sound.   When I first
came here the harpsichord was in the low 415 position but tuned to 440 so they
could get all the notes.  That could explain a lot.  If this is the
case, let them know that excessive tension can also cause warping and sticking
registers- or worse.  



good luck,



Dennis Johnson

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote:





 





On Oct 11, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Paul T Williams wrote:









You
know, the action is transferable to a lower pitch.....maybe we've been tuning
it all these years at too high of tension????? I'll look into that as well.





 





If the action is set to the left, with the spacer to the
right, it is in low pitch position. And vice versa. So if the spacer is on the
left, it should be OK at 440, but not if the spacer is on the right.











Regards,





Fred Sturm





fssturm at unm.edu







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which to shape it.” Brecht









 





 

 		 	   		  
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