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<div>At 1:38 am +0100 23/12/06, Ric Brekne wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>This loop is routinely called the French
Loop here in Norway... at least by those I know. I was under the
impression that the English Loop was a single round version of the
double german.....</blockquote>
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<div>Pictured below are (top) the English, or American, _eye_ and
(below) the single German _eye_ -- Ose in German, oeuillet in French.
The double German eye takes two turns round the hitchpin before the
finishing coils. The tag on the German eye can also point in the
other direction and the number of finishing coils varies from 1 to 3
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<div>In my book these are not loops but eyes. The plain steel
scale of most pianos is strung with loops and the occasional (German)
eye at the breaks. A loop is what you get at the hitchpin when a
single length of wire serves two strings.</div>
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<div>I have never come across German eyes on the covered strings of a
French piano. Erard, Pleyel and Gaveau all used the English
style of eye but in length these are generally 30-35 mm. long with the
spiral twist far more tightly wound than on non-french makes.
French string-makers also favoured a very long pointed swaging at the
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<div>Nearly all English makers have used English eyes. Brinsmead
(probably for the reasons put forward in this thread, used the double
German eye for the covered strings of the uprights, and Kirkman used
English eyes throughout the scale -- very unusual.</div>
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<div>If I were to distinguish a "French eye" I'd describe it
as a very tightly wound English eye.</div>
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<div>JD</div>
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