This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Rob Goodale For:Great Pileney Street read Great Pulteney Street it's between Beak Street and Brewer Street, running parallel to Bridle = Lane which is parallel to James Street which is one side of Golden = Square, London W1. How's that for a fast fix? The tuning pins will be = "Oblong" in cross-section, not oval. They were hammered that way. The = action is a very simple one which uses an inclined plane for let-off. = There will (should be) a board about 1/4" thick at a slight angle which = covers the top of the keys next to the wood-framed action. The covered = strings are copper wound. Shame about the pin-block. Later pianos by = Broadwood still used the oblong section pins but they had engineering = threads and the plate was drilled and tapped. In your little bicorda the = case-work resembles more a Harpsichord than a grand piano. It probably = has a "fish-tail" end. The case will be veneered with rosewood and the = dampers will have to be screwed out of their blocks - the wires being = threaded at that end. The centre pins will actually be just one long = centre pin held in place by a brass comb affair and many screws. The = legs screw on to the underside and the thread on them was cut by a = "Holtzapfell Lathe" Contact a member of the Ornamental Wood Turners = Association for more details about that. One last thing.... You will = find that the craftsmen who built your Bicorda will have stamped their = names on bits of it. Look out for members of the Dove family. There may = well be an oblong green label on the soundboard to advise you of certain = things to do with tuning and maintaining this beastie. Well done! It is = not far removed from the Fortepianos of its time. I once had an 1873 = fishtail bicorda and an 1827 (predating the death of Schubert) Broadwood = Square piano. Yes, the nameboard label is quite something special. Kind regards Michael G (UK) near Glyndebourne, Sussex ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/31/cf/21/85/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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