Fred et al, A great contact for all things harpsichord is [still] Zuckermann's. Richard Auber owns and manages the company (woodwright at snet.net) and Steve Salvatore is foreman of the shop: Zuckermann Harpsichords International 65 Cutler St., PO Box 151 Stonington, CT 06378 U.S.A. Tel. 860-535-1715 / FAX 3724 Toll Free: 888-HARPSCD (427-7723) E-mail <steve at zhi.net> http://zhi.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Robert A. Murphy Piano Technician & Curator of Fortepianos Oberlin Conservatory of Music cell: 517.285.3269 shop: 440.775.8275 On Sep 06, 2008, at 12:27 AM, David Doremus wrote: > Fred Sturm wrote: >> >> Here's a Kingston jack. > Is that really that different from Hubbards or Dowds? If you have only > one damper slot you simply reverse the tongue, right? Or is it molded > so thats not possible? I have a bag of old parts and I will measure > what I have in the morning, the concept is exactly the same, they > might well fit. How many do you need? No reason you cant reuse the > endpin and adjusting screw if you have to replace the whole thing. The > real pain is the old Herz jacks with the spring molded into the jack > rather than the tongue, or the Burton one piece tongue/plectra. > > The last contact numbers I had were 704-434-0104, > kingstoncembalo at cs.com, back at least 3 years to the last time Skip > Sempé played here and we needed to beg and borrow a Kingston and a > Dowd for the concert. Not a lot of harpsichord activity here, > unfortunately. > > --Dave > > New Orleans -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1727 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080906/29809143/attachment.bin
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