Hi Stéphan, Del, I tought that the book for restringing pianofortes from Malcom Rose might be interesting too, but I suppose you also already heared about it Del? Like the book from Latcham there are about the most known pianoforte scalings but it goes farther than 1820. (I think the most recent pianoforte must be from around 1850). There are several pianofortes that have been restored here at the Music Instruments Museum in Brussels and of course the scales have been printed out and I'll look for that. Actually we are about to restring a Boisselot Pianoforte of 1844, so at least that's one I can send to you. OT / OT Anyone interested in the scaling of banjos??? There's an exposition of these instruments here at the Museum in Brussels. I tought : Banjo = American instrument but the oldest ones found arrived from Suriname or Africa in the late 18th, so Stéphan, Vous êtes la bienvenoue! Wasn't that Henry Pape who build a piano with the principles of the banjo (or drums) a big round kettle with a skin tied over it instead of a soundboard. I'd like to know how this thing must have sounded? Regards, Pierre Gevaert Belgium ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stéphane Collin" <collin.s@skynet.be> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:43 PM 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. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:51 PM > Subject: Re: stringing scales > > > | > | ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Calin Tantareanu" <dnu@fx.ro> > | To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> > | Sent: November 11, 2003 10:51 AM > | Subject: stringing scales > | > | > | > Hi Del, > | > > | > If you are interested, I have the scaling information from the > | Schweighofer > | > grand whose pictures I've sent you some time ago. > | > I am currently playing around with an Excel spreadsheet and trying to > | > rescale it. > | > Let me know if you need it. > | > > | > Calin Tantareanu > | > ---------------------------------------------------- > | > e-mail: dnu@fx.ro > | > http://calintantareanu.tripod.com > | > ---------------------------------------------------- > | > | > | I am interested in scaling information from any early piano. I would like > | to assemble as much information as possible about the stringing scales used > | in early fortepianos and transitional instruments. Who knows...it might > | help us understand where some of the current ideas of scaling came from. > | > | Very little has been written about this. Most writers get into the > | development of the action but only casually mention the strings or the > | scaling. > | > | Thanks, > | > | Del > | > | > | _______________________________________________ > | pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > | > | > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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