Bird-Cages/Fogger/Snide remarks

[Barrie Heaton]

In message <a05100306b8495fe635f4@[195.147.233.234]>, John Delacour
<JD@Pianomaker.co.uk> writes
>
>Papps, incidentally, must have been quite an interesting chap.  I think
>he was based in Portsmouth (Barrie ??)

I made the mistake once of getting him mixed up with a French man the
wooden ones are quite a find they now come in all sorts of colours.


>and he invented a solid steel wrestplank with holes in the shape of a
>rounded wedge.  The wrestpins just sit in these holes and the tension
>of the strings is sufficient to pull them down towards the point of the
>wedge where they  are gripped solid.  Tuners who have come across
>these pianos say the system works fine contrary to all preconceptions.
>I've never come across one but I expect Barrie has.

Not tuned one have read - and been told  about them, I would say they
are more of a south England piano.


Barrie,


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