The first thing that strikes my eye are the "historical" tuning pins. I can't see where a maker who goes to this degree of "authenticity" (what Bill Dowd in his day used to call "hysterical accuracy") is going to scale the instrument to live at A=440... Or am I accusing harpsichord builders of an unrealistic degree of consistency? Hmmmm.... Israel Stein ========== The Zuckermann's I worked on @ Luther had those tapered/no becket hole pins. Not a real problem once you get used to them, and a heck of a lot easier to restring and make it look nice. I've restrung the ones with holes (Burton/Jones-Clayton, etc.) and considered THEM as a PIA. Conrad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101012/8f46bb2d/attachment.htm>
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