<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hello Ane and Robert. Now the = history of the Pianoforte. I found it some years ago in a old house without strings, = with the action in parts and out of the piano. I was surprised and this was the = first time that I was in front of a wonderful piece but in a very bad condition.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The first thing that  I did was = to send a Fax to PTG and ask for someone that could give me more information about = it and the only thing that I could read on it was the year, the name of = GAMBIAZO, who makes it, and some numbers on the bridge 6/0, 5/0, etc.etc</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The PTG send me a fax with the phone = number of Ray Chandler (RTP). I talk with him and he said me that was important = speak with JONH KOSTER , Conservator & Associate Professor of Museum Science of = South Dakota University. To him  I send a video, photos, a map with the = speaking length of the strings. From him I received a letter and on it he said = that was a very important piece and that because the string of each end was double = and that seems be originally a harpsichord and that the Shrine To Music = Museum  have one piece just like the mine made by Antunes but that the action of the = mine isn't a Cristofori and that is a action of the mine is more primitive = than the piano actions made by other Portuguese makers in the 1760s. After I was = visited by Mr..Gerard Doderer, a German that lives in Portugal, and Mr.. Von Der = Meer another German that was over the pianoforte about one week and that said = me that is was a harpsichord converted in a pianoforte and they included this = pianoforte on the book about early Portuguese harpsichords and pianos. This book = says that the instrument that I have is a authentic one!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>After this I think that the goal of = my life as a piano tuner and technician is to construct a Cristofori action to it. = Would be possible? I think that yes because in piano we may do everything.Rogerio = Cunha - IC Member of the PTG - Rio - Brasil</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>