stringing scales

[Stéphane Collin]

Hello Delwin

The german publisher is here :
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Katzbichler_Musikverlag/

for the Latcham (printed in 2000) you could preferably ask by Email :
Katzbichler@web.de

they have an US distributor :
Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
16122 Cohasset Street
Van Nuys CA 91406-2989 USA
Tel: +1 (818) 994-1902 Fax: +1 (818) 994-0419

whose website is :
http://www.tfront.com/

and Email
music@tfront.com 


For the transitional instruments, I know a guy who did lots of research on Pleyel and Erard pianos.  His personal site is also interesting, with comparisons of many gauge systems from the middle 19th.
His site is here :
http://fractales.inria.fr/~louchet/perso/music+/pleyel_/Pt00.html#Head418

Unfortunately, he didn't translate all to english yet.

Regards

Stéphane Collin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: stringing scales


| 
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Stéphane Collin" <collin.s@skynet.be>
| To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
| Sent: November 12, 2003 10:43 AM
| Subject: Re: stringing scales
| 
| 
| > Del,
| >
| > Perhaps you know this alreaddy, but there is a fantastic study about this
| :
| > "The stringing, scaling and pitch of hammerflügel built in the southern
| german and viennese traditions (1780-1820)" by Michael Latcham.  This is
| Band 34 from Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften, published by Musikverlag
| Katzbichler - München - Salzburg.  There is volume I : text and volume II :
| tables and graphs.
| > Don't worry, the text is in english.  It is an exhaustive survey of all
| known original pianofortes by Hofman, Stein, Streicher and Walter, with
| full scaling information, speculative gauge data following period and
| place, and desing features and their evolution.  Very nice work, very
| instructive.
| >
| > Regards,
| >
| > Stéphane Collin.
| >
| 
| Thanks. And it's available from where? Any place online that you know of? I
| doubt this work will be showing up in any book store near me any time soon.
| Or on Amazon.com for that.
| 
| And then there are the transitional instruments built from 1820 up to about
| 1870. I've studied enough pianos from 1870 on to have a pretty good idea of
| what was going with them. It's those transitional instruments that remain a
| question.
| 
| Del
| 
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