I don't know whether or not this got posted to the list - no one replied to it so I am going to assume that it didn't and post it a second time. I sent it around the time that there was somekind of problem with the server. These questions were forwarded to me from Belgium. The sender, Paul Poletti is a fortepiano builder. He isn't able to subscribe to lists right now and so I am forwarding posts and collecting replies. Sound like good questions. I'm interested to see what others know about this myself. >Date: 27 Mar 95 17:36:37 EST >From: Paul Poletti <100407.2266@compuserve.com> >To: Bill Darst <darst@humanitas.ucsb.edu> >Subject: pianos (again?!) > >Hi Bill, > >A couple of questions that perhaps you can post on the Piano Tech for me: > >1. When were modern tuning pins (with the fine threading) first used? >2. When were laminated pinblocks first used regularly and by whom? >3. Does 1 have any connection with 2? I have seen many late 19th-c pianos with >old style pins, that is flat heads and either no threads or very rough threads >on them, in solid-wood pinblocks. Has anybody seen these in laminated >blocks, or >definitely original fine-thread pins in solid blocks? >4. Any ideas on what exactly the fine threading does (other than make the pin >rise and fall with rotation)? > >Paul Bill Darst Music Dept UC Santa Barbara
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