Just a tip of what your local library can do for you: If you're looking for an "out of the ordinary" book, or even one that's not, a great way to preview the book, is to borrow it from your library. If your local library doesn't have it, it can usually be gotten on what is called Inter-Library Loan. I've borrowed books from all over the US. If there is any cost, it is usually quite low. After having a chance to look at it for a couple of weeks, it's easy to determine whether or not it's something you'd like to purchase. I've saved myself a lot of money doing this, not to mention avoiding the frustration of purchasing a book that doesn't quite measure up to what I was expecting. Happy reading!. Barbara Richmond, RPT somewhere near Peoria, IL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:30 AM Subject: Re: stringing scales Hey there Stéphane, You dont know if it has any scaling information on square grands do you ? RicB Collin wrote: > > 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 > | > | > | > | _______________________________________________ > | pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > | > | > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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