---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Chris, Good luck! We've also had a difficult time getting hold of him. At 09:03 AM 12/13/2005, you wrote: >Has anyone been in contact with Willard Martin? I have been trying >to get in touch with him for weeks. Our two Martin harpsichords >need parts and my stock is getting thin. > >If not Willard, can anyone suggest another supplier for strings and >plectra? I don't mind making my own string replacements but it sure >has been convenient to have them pre cut and the hitch pin coil ready to go. Here's a post I saved from several years ago. I've never checked it out because, so far, I haven't needed to. :-) You might find it useful, though. ================================================================= I get my wire from The Instrument Workshop in Oregon. Contact Lutz Bungart at workshhop@fortepiano.com I also have this address in a different post: e-mail: fortepiano@fortepiano.com Ask for Lutz Bungart. You may like this page on his website: http://www.fortepiano.com/wire.htm I have also had very informative discussions with Margaret Hood at HOOD@UWPLATT.EDU Her website is http://www.fortepianos.pair.com Blaine Vesely Kent, OH ========================================================== Hope this helps. Avery Todd >Also, while I'm on a roll, I'm thinking about restringing our french >double in the recital hall. It has been very reliable for the first >fifteen years I have been here but this last couple of years it >seems to have gone into a slump. I often get a broken string during >tuning now where before it was very rare. I am also wanting to >replace all the pluckers. I have a faculty member practicing in >here daily now and these dudes are breaking all over the place. At >this rate, it will have all new plectra soon anyway... > >Thanks for your input, >Chris > >Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T. >School of Music, Ohio University >Rm. 311, Robt. Glidden Hall >Athens, OH 45701 >Office (740) 593-1656 >Cell (740) 590-3842 >fax (740) 593-1429 ><http://www.ohiou.edu/music>http://www.ohiou.edu/music > ></blockquote></x-html> _______________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4017 713-743-3226 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/2a/ce/56/6f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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