stringing scales

[Stéphane Collin]

No Ric, there is no information on square pianos.  Only on pianoforte instruments.

Regards,

Stéphane Collin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: stringing scales


| Hey there Stéphane, You dont know if it has any scaling information on
| square grands do you ?
| 
| RicB
| 
|  Collin wrote:
| > 
| > Hello Delwin
| > 
| > The german publisher is here :
| > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Katzbichler_Musikverlag/
| > 
| > for the Latcham (printed in 2000) you could preferably ask by Email :
| > Katzbichler@web.de
| > 
| > they have an US distributor :
| > Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
| > 16122 Cohasset Street
| > Van Nuys CA 91406-2989 USA
| > Tel: +1 (818) 994-1902 Fax: +1 (818) 994-0419
| > 
| > whose website is :
| > http://www.tfront.com/
| > 
| > and Email
| > music@tfront.com
| > 
| > For the transitional instruments, I know a guy who did lots of research on Pleyel and Erard pianos.  His personal site is also interesting, with comparisons of many gauge systems from the middle 19th.
| > His site is here :
| > http://fractales.inria.fr/~louchet/perso/music+/pleyel_/Pt00.html#Head418
| > 
| > Unfortunately, he didn't translate all to english yet.
| > 
| > Regards
| > 
| > Stéphane Collin
| > 
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
| > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
| > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:09 AM
| > Subject: Re: stringing scales
| > 
| > |
| > | ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Stéphane Collin" <collin.s@skynet.be>
| > | To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
| > | Sent: November 12, 2003 10:43 AM
| > | Subject: Re: stringing scales
| > |
| > |
| > | > Del,
| > | >
| > | > Perhaps you know this alreaddy, but there is a fantastic study about this
| > | :
| > | > "The stringing, scaling and pitch of hammerflügel built in the southern
| > | german and viennese traditions (1780-1820)" by Michael Latcham.  This is
| > | Band 34 from Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften, published by Musikverlag
| > | Katzbichler - München - Salzburg.  There is volume I : text and volume II :
| > | tables and graphs.
| > | > Don't worry, the text is in english.  It is an exhaustive survey of all
| > | known original pianofortes by Hofman, Stein, Streicher and Walter, with
| > | full scaling information, speculative gauge data following period and
| > | place, and desing features and their evolution.  Very nice work, very
| > | instructive.
| > | >
| > | > Regards,
| > | >
| > | > Stéphane Collin.
| > | >
| > |
| > | Thanks. And it's available from where? Any place online that you know of? I
| > | doubt this work will be showing up in any book store near me any time soon.
| > | Or on Amazon.com for that.
| > |
| > | And then there are the transitional instruments built from 1820 up to about
| > | 1870. I've studied enough pianos from 1870 on to have a pretty good idea of
| > | what was going with them. It's those transitional instruments that remain a
| > | question.
| > |
| > | Del
| > |
| > |
| > |
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