---------- > From: Jim <pianotoo@IMAP2.ASU.EDU> > To: James Grebe <pianoman@inlink.com> > Cc: pianotech@byu.edu > Subject: Re: wrong? > Date: Friday, April 04, 1997 1:03 PM > > > No James; > > You WERE right; the older pianos DID have iron wrap. It's only > the newer spinet and consoles which had the aluminum wrap. Everett and > Story & Clark, and Lowry had aluminum strings in the Tenor section. > Wurlitzer and others used a copper flashed iron wrap in the two string > area of the Bass for quite awhile, later using a copper clad iron wrap > which looked just like copper except at the ends of the wrap where you > could see it was really iron. These were on the economy models well up > into the 70's. > > Jim Coleman, Sr. > > On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, James Grebe wrote: > > > Dear list, > > Have I been wrong all these years thinking that the winding was iron? > > Let me know please > > James Grebe from St. Louis > > pianoman@inlink.com > >
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