Schomacker gold strings

[Delwin D Fandrich]

The wire is actually gold plated. 
 
I once had a customer who had seen one of these pianos and wanted me to restring
his piano with similar wire. I did find a plater who was willing to gold plate
the wire but didn't actually set a price on the project. It would have been
thousands and on hearing this my customer decided plain old Mapes "International
Gold" wire was close enough.
 
Del


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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
VOCE88 at aol.com
Sent: October 26, 2006 3:35 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Schomacker gold strings


Hello list!
 
I have a question. 
 
I have seen a few of these beasties with the "gold" strings still on them, and
coincidentally,I just saw one. The customer would like his piano fully rebuilt,
but wants the option of having gold strings reinstalled. When I called and spoke
to a Mapes technician..... well I was told it wasn't possible.
 
My question is - what did Schomacker use? I know they marketed it as gold, but
was it actually a little brass aded to the steel? Was it some kind of plating?
Can anyone help?
 
Rich Galassini
Cunninham Piano Co.

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