Pleyel from 1860

[Isaac sur Noos]

Hello Calin,

Letoff is regulated with a button and a slant on the jack. I don't
believe it is worth the buy, an Erard from the same era would be more
interesting.

We call those overdamper action "mecanique a bayonettes" because of
the shape of the metal rod that act on the damper. These dampers
rarely damp very well, and they are tricky to regulate/repair.

Value is very low in my opinion, no more than 100 € , usually you can
have them for free assuming you pay the movers !

I tune sometime one of these, for sentimental reasons, , it hold tune
may be an hour or so, but the customers can't get rid of it because of
the grandfather that is living in their place.

leather strips, and fragile springs, comb centerpins .... see what I
mean.

Best Regards.


Isaac OLEG


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Isaac OLEG
accordeur - reparateur - concert
oleg-i@noos.fr
19 rue Jules Ferry
94400 VITRY sur SEINE
tel: 033 01 47 18 06 98
fax: 33 01 47 18 06 90
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de Calin Tantareanu
> Envoyé : samedi 22 novembre 2003 21:27
> À : fortepiano@yahoogroups.com; pianotech@ptg.org
> Objet : Pleyel from 1860
>
>
> Hello everybody!
>
> I've seen a small Pleyel upright for sale. It is from
> around 1860-65 (serial
> number ~34000), no cast iron frame, just 1 or 2 iron bars.
> It is in decent shape, with a pretty bookmatched veneer
> case, although it
> doesn't hold the tuning. It has a strange overdamper
> action, with really
> tiny dampers, without an escapement on the jack (I wonder
> how it it supposed
> to work - but it repeats as well as a modern upright). It
> is parallel
> strung, with the strings angled to the right. Left pedal
> shifts the hammers
> like on a grand (una corda).
> The sound is not bad, and would expect it to be quite nice
> when properly
> tuned.
> Anyway, I was thinking of buying it.
> Would this be an instrument worth getting or should I kep
> looking? How much
> would one pay for such an upright?
> I have some (unfortunately bad) pictures in case someone's
> interested.
>
>
>  Calin Tantareanu
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>  http://calintantareanu.tripod.com
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