Paul, the text to go with that third picture is found at http://www.squarepianos.com/publi_html/square.htm "Shown here is a typical square piano of 1815, this one by William Stodart, London, of five-and-a-half octaves, with damper pedal. Notice that the pedal is under the left foot, not the right. This was customary at that period with all makers, even though grand pianos had the sustaining pedal under the right foot. After 1800 most English square pianos have only one pedal (for the sustaining tone), but German pianos, and many American ones, often had a second pedal for the soft-sounding 'moderator' effect. French square pianos were often supplied with a row of four pedals: dampers, harp, moderator and swell." Scott Jackson -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2009 8:32 To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Emailing: Wm.Rolfe Pianoforte 005 Hey, Scott, Where is the third one? It's beautiful... PW -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090108/7e3477d7/attachment.html>
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