Fw: wrong?

[James Grebe]

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> From: Jim <pianotoo@IMAP2.ASU.EDU>
> To: James Grebe <pianoman@inlink.com>
> Cc: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: wrong?
> Date: Friday, April 04, 1997 1:03 PM
>
>
> 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
> >