Cy wrote: >It's beautiful! I particularly like the tone of the first treble note. >What size is the piano? Wooden frame, or metal plate? To my (untrained) >ear, it doesn't sound like typical low tension fortepiano strings (was the >tension raised in the rescaling?). Not low tension by that time. Even by the 1830s string tension on French pianos was pretty high. Typical Pleyel composite frame was wrought iron wrestplank plate, hitchpin plate (big) and tension bars, more before they changed to T bars around 1850. They didn't change to cast frame till very late n the century. No need really. Stephen Stephen Birkett Fortepianos Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos 464 Winchester Drive Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2T 1K5 tel: 519-885-2228 mailto: sbirkett@real.uwaterloo.ca
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