<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQpnMDaF-aE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQpnMDaF-aE</a></div><div><br></div><div>There is the you tube story.</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Ron Nossaman <<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [pianotech] "Build your own piano" book, was: L.W. Foster Piano?</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">6 February, 2013 10:45:06 PM AST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br></span></div><br><div>On 2/6/2013 7:38 PM, David Nereson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><<  I saw a book once from the early 1900's with plans for building your<br>own piano. >><br><br>    I have a copy of one such book.  It's "Pianos:  Their Construction,<br>Tuning, and Repair," edited by Paul N. Hasluck, printed by Cassell and<br>Company, Ltd., London.   First printed 1905; reprinted thru at least<br>1928.   I just read through it quickly once.  I don't remember where<br>they suggested getting the plate from -- it might've been a simple<br>straight-strung piano (no overstrung bass), with metal struts instead of<br>a full plate.<br>     What's interesting is the language and the names of some of the<br>tools, such as a bow drill (requires no electricity, but works like a<br>Boy Scout's bow and stick for starting fires with no matches), a hinge<br>pusher, casting tongs, sticker hooks, toning needle, etc.<br></blockquote><br>Oh, I'd LOVE a copy of that one! I'm going looking.<br>Ron N<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> </div> <br></body></html>