Hi Dave, Thanks for the note on the URL...it's www.periodpianos.org - add the "s" to what I posted....too late at night after doing some NAMM work til almost midnight! The web site is temporarily ugly....but the text should be fine. I'll fix the titles later in the day. The advantage of researching Steinway is that the records are intact and it happens to be the company driving the technology and the market during the period of 1860 to 1880. However, the complete picture is very important, so I'm very interested in documenting other brands as well, especially Chickering, Knabe, Weber, Hallet Davis....and a host of other instruments whose names aren't recognized but who were innovative and deserve attention. My study focuses on Steinway but it would be useless without the context. At the present time I'm interested in finding out if any other manufacturer built an instrument in 1869 or before in which the plate fully extended over the pinblock (at least past the pin field). Steinway seems to have been the first, in 1869, but I would like to know if another company did. Bill Shull In a message dated 1/18/2007 5:27:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, dporritt at mail.smu.edu writes: Bill: Thanks for the research you are doing on the history of our instrument. History is not my thing so I’m really glad someone is doing it! Two things: Are you also looking at the same things from other factories – Mason & Hamlin, Knabe, Chickering, McPhail. Baldwin etc.?? If you find – in your study of scale evolution – why that evolution stopped after the turn of the century I’d really love to know. Somehow I couldn’t get the link below to work -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070118/9386f4f1/attachment.html
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