No James; You WERE right; the older pianos DID have iron wrap. It's only the newer spinet and consoles which had the aluminum wrap. Everett and Story & Clark, and Lowry had aluminum strings in the Tenor section. Wurlitzer and others used a copper flashed iron wrap in the two string area of the Bass for quite awhile, later using a copper clad iron wrap which looked just like copper except at the ends of the wrap where you could see it was really iron. These were on the economy models well up into the 70's. Jim Coleman, Sr. On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, James Grebe wrote: > Dear list, > Have I been wrong all these years thinking that the winding was iron? > Let me know please > James Grebe from St. Louis > pianoman@inlink.com >
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