>From Carey Beebe's website http://www.hpschd.nu/index.html?nav/nav-4.html&t/welcome.html&http://www.hpschd.nu/tech/str/break.html All the brass strings were breaking in this famous make of harpsichord because of chemical residue from the tuning pin blackening. Not copied is a photo of a blackened wrought iron pin. He does not name the maker. My one encounter with a Hill and Tyre harpsichord had similar pins, but so do many makers. Ed S. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110104/90b28923/attachment-0001.htm>
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