Square piano strings/Dave Dormus' ?

[Dave Doremus]

I think you are correct. I have seen those Clementi dampers and they 
are very similar to what I'm looking at. I was thinking wool but try 
to find somethnig like it in an American fabric store.....Any English 
tuners out there willing to find some cloth for a not so humble 
American? (still bubbling after we beat Mexico)

Or maybe someone knows a textile conservation person who has access 
to better than the ordinary commercial sources?


At 10:01 AM -0700 6/26/02, Joseph Garrett wrote:
>  My
>"collector/restorer" has gone so far as to have a friend, visiting England
>take a sample and scour the textile outlets of London, to find a close match
>to the material that was used on the damper system of his 1805 Clementi.
>What it turned out to be was a very loose weave fabric, wool. It has been
>used and is acceptable for his piano. I might suggest the same approach. I'm
>sure there is a whole new world, out there, when it comes to textiles!

-- 
----Dave


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Dave Doremus RPT
New Orleans
algiers_piano@bellsouth.net
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