This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Terry! My "sweet" square is from about 1810-1820 the experts told me.It=B4's a = Raedecker & Lunau made in L=FCbeck. With the shallow key dip I can play = much=20 faster and that is the sweet thing for me. No, honestly it feels kind of = strange and it take a while to get used to it. But I can play fast!! this is directly from a broschure from Malcolm Rose Type A: For Harpsicords, viriginals and spinets...... Type B: For fortepianos and Square pianos up to ca 1820 Type C: For pianos from c 1820 to c. 1840 a hard drawn iron with a = carbon content Type D: this wire is of the same material as type C, but in a = harder-drawn state suitable for instruments in the 1840=B4s Average density:7769 kg/m3 If you take one of the old strings from the piano you will be = restringing, and compare it with a modern one of the same diameter. Try = to bend it in your hand and feel if there is any differens in the = stiffnes of the string. If it is an old type of string it would bend very easily. I don=B4t know when they switched from iron to steel. I think it was = over a period of time. But on a square from 1865 I think I would use = modern strings, but maybee calculate on the scale to get a picture of = the tension of the strings. I don=B4t have much experiance in this at all. I just did my square = piano for fun, I like older instruments. I also have a Bl=FCthner from 1873 and a Chickering grandpiano from = 1882. How the Chickering ended up in Sweden would be interesting to find = out.... Linda Str=E5hle=20 S:P:T:F Malmoe Sweden =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6a/25/d2/e2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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