Weber upright from 1884.

[mccleskey112 at bellsouth.net]

I'm wondering what the difference is in foot pounds between 435 and 440 cps.
Gerald McCleskey
Shreveport, LA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Weber upright from 1884.


> At 20:35 -0600 31/12/07, Martin Wisenbaker wrote:
> 
>>The piano has only a partial plate coming up only to the bottom of 
>>the pin block.
>>Question: if it were restrung what is the feasibility that it could be
>>tuned to A-440?
> 
> There are tons of good pianos like that, including the Steck and the 
> Gotha Steck, which is regarded as one of the best uprights ever made. 
> I don't know the American-made Weber but the Webers made in England 
> in the early 1900s (under Wolfenden's supervision) were very fine.
> 
> Strings break either through rust and ill-treatment or through poor 
> design.  You can probably exclude poor design in this case and 
> therefore, unless you treat it badly, it will give no problems at 
> 440cps if you restring it.
> 
> JD