This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello List - and Tom Sivak In this country the Broadwood is very much a common sight. I even had on = myself - a Cottage of 1871 or so, No.857. To untangle and use Pierce it is necessary first to pencil in a few = horizontal lines between the entries. Looking at the "types" of piano = which are listed you will notice there is continual repetition. On the = right side of the page there are dates:=20 viz:=20 1870 to 1876 The left column for this period reads: Cottage Grangs Semi & Short D.R. Grands (Drawing Room) Grands Cottages (these are uprights - a peculiar beastie with vertical = stringing, over damper action and an "inclined plane let-off" The bridle = is a loop of tape with a felt collar to tighten it round the odd-shaped = bridle wire. The jack spring is not the helical variety, but more like = those butt-springs on US uprights which make adjustment of the damper = wire such a pain.) There are so many variations to the Broadwood piano - both Upright and = Grand that it would take a whole book to discuss them. There is a book = called : Broadwood by Appointment - a History by David Wainwright. = Quiller Press, London ISBN 0 907621 10 4 It makes good reading too! Just thought you'd like to know Regards from a wet and miserably black Sussex Downland Village Michael G (UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d0/bd/a7/bb/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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