Broadwood grand- yet another one

Andrew and Diana Nolan Andyana@bigpond.com
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:42:54 +1100


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Hi, I just picked up a Broadwood grand, 1882, 7'2",Rosewood, one
diagonal and one longitudinal bar,underdamper as well as a curious
"gunmetal harmonic bar" found where a capo tasto bar normally is. This
piano is in absolutely original condition- pins wire cloth etc. It
needs minor refinishing and cleaning only.  Now it has somewhat rusty
strings and I would like to restring it, but it also has the infamous
screw type oblong head pins and I fear that the tuning torque would be
too low if I attempted to reuse these.
I am concerned to preserve the original state of this piano as with
all the 19thC pianos I have seen they rarely have original cloths etc,
and these are critical to setting up the actions.
This piano is to be sold eventually and if I dont replace the pins,
someone else probably will as few techs have the necessary tuning
wrench oblong tips.
Any opinions?

Andrew Nolan

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