<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [CAUT] h'chord regulation question</title></head><body> <div>Just to point out that it would be well worth the money to have Don do the voicing and regulating on your instrument if he is available, he is the best I have ever heard, and I've heard some good ones. (Also a damn fine harpsichordist, does Fats Waller and Foggy Mountain Breakdown as well as more traditional fare.) Different choirs<u> canno</u>t pluck simultaneously or it will be practically unplayable when coupled and 4' on. Some folks have advocated 4', front 8' then back 8', IMHO this is rare, either back 8' , 4', front 8', or 4', back 8', front 8' (the two lower manual sets of jacks should pluck first). The trick to doing this right is to get the jacks that pluck first at an even distance below the strings, in a builders shop we used to do this without dampers, setting the plectra right on the bottom side of the string and then taking one turn (more or less if necessary, but the same on all notes) of the end pins to give clearance. Note also that voicing affects stagger, if you change the voicing you need to recheck the stagger. Hope this is helpful, if delayed, due to Mardi Gras season my email reading is slower than normal.</div> <div><br></div> <div>----Dave<br> <br> <br> -----------------------------<br> Dave Doremus, RPT<br> New Orleans</div> <div>------------------------------</div> <div><br></div> <div>On 2/2/05, Wimblees@aol.com said:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">In a message dated 2/2/2005 1:15:41 P.M. Central Standard Time, custos3@comcast.net writes:</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"></font> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Wim,<br> <br> This is a long shot, but there is a fellow in Salem, Massachusetts who used to work for Bill Dowd when he had his harpsichord shop in South Boston - and did a lot of service and maintenance on Dowd instruments (for all I know - still does...) His name is Don Angle, and here is all the contact information I can find for him:</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"></font></blockquote> <blockquote align="center"><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Donald C. Angle</b></font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"></font></blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Israel</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Just to let you know I contact Don, and he wrote back that he did not have the part I need. But he remembered the h'chord. Very impressive.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Thanks for the advice.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Wim</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">PS. Are you going to need my help again with the hands on classes? I'm ready and willing to work.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> </body> </html>