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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fordpiano@earthlink.net =
href="mailto:fordpiano@earthlink.net">Phillip
Ford</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk
href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 18, 2005 =
4:56
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: seating =
strings</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial size=-1>Hello =
Phillip</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial =
size=-1>Thanks for your
e-mail. I restrung an old Feurich upright some 30 years ago. It =
didn't have
agraffes on the bridge though. Unlike those Collen Broadwoods which
do.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial
size=-1>Regards</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial =
size=-1>Michael
G.(UK)</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>The Feurich I'm talking about is a grand. And it doesn't =
have
agraffes on the bridge, just on the plate. I'll try to find that =
picture. By the way, what's the difference between a Broadwood =
and a
Collen Broadwood?</DIV>
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<DIV>Phil Ford</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Phillip and List.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I thought I'd include the List, =
knowing 'their'
voracious appetite for piano history.....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Reginald Collen was a director of =
Broadwood in
the 1920s. It was he who devised a method of manufacturing pianos by a =
pre-fabrication process. The case and action would be manufactured =
separately
and then secured together. It was clearly derived from Collen's =
experience in
simplifying piano-making for the benefit of the women workers during =
the
"Great War" (1914-1918) while the men-folk were out there fighting. =
The
process was registered as the Collen-Broadwood Patent, No.267195 in =
March
1927. I culled this information from a very interesting book I have on =
John
Broadwood entitled "Broadwood By Appointment" a History by David =
Wainwright,
published by Quiller Press, London ISBN 0 907621 10 4. It is in =
hardback and
its 360 pages are simply full of name-dropping and problems which =
beset the
firm from its earliest experimental beginnings in the early 1700s to =
the
1980s. By the way, the "by Appointment" is, of course, to the British =
Royal
Family anecdotes of which feature large throughout the book. =
Includes
many photos.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael
G.(UK)</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>