Iron Wire/Square Grand

[Farrell]

Hi Linda, sounds like an interesting piano. Do you know about what year of
manufacture your piano is? - early 1800s? I will be restringing a square
grand this fall, but it is a "modern" one, with a full cast iron plate,
manufactured about 1865. Do you know, did these more recent ones use modern
piano wire? When did they switch from iron to steel?

When you say "It has a keydepth of  7 mm. That is sweet!" are you referring
to key dip? If so, why do you like such a shallow key dip (or at least it
seems shallow to me :-)?


Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Stråhle" <linda.laserbeam@home.se>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:04 PM
Subject: SV: Iron Wire


> Hello Jim,
>
> If it is older type of iron strings you need you can buy it from:
>
> Malcolm Rose
> The Workshop,
> English Passage,
> Lewes,
> East Sussex
> BN7 2AP,GB
> England
> tel& fax ( 0 )1273 - 48 10 10
>
> I restrunged a very old square piano( with no ironfram at all )
> and got strings from Malcolm Rose.
> I think he has three types of iron.
> Also a great book called "A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice"
>
> I´m still working on my old square, have it in the kitchen.
> It has a keydepth of  7 mm. That is sweet!
>
> Happy Midsummer;
> Linda Stråhle
> Malmoe
> Sweden
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Jakoze@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:30 AM
> Subject: Iron Wire
>
>
> > I am looking for a source for iron piano wire. Also I'm looking for
someone
> > who will underwind bass strings. (Wrapping that is first wound quickly
toward
> > the hitch-pin loop and then wound back over in the normal fashion. You
know
> > what I mean. After 27 years I still don't know that they're called.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim Kozak,
> > Houston, Texas
> >
>
>
>