Stephen, It may be phosphur (sp?) bronze, which looks a little like reddish brass. The folks at Zuckermann harpsichords are very helpful and have always been able to answer my questions. The phone # is 860-535-1715. Good luck! BTW, I think Herz made pretty good instruments, though I've never worked on any myself, I've heard tell... Mary >Dear Friends, > >I service a harpsichord built by Eric Herz in 1969. 2 manuals, 2- 8ft, 1- 16ft and 1 - 4ft. Several strings have broken in the lowest octave in both the 8 ft and 4 ft registers. The wire is not steel - some looks like brass and some looks like copper. > 3 questions - 1. Does any one have experience with this type of instrument? 2. What exactly is this wire made of? and >3. Where can I get the wire. Any help would be gratly appreciated. > >Regards, >Steve > >Stephen Snyder >Piano Technician >342 Scotts Lake Road >Salem, NY 12865 >518-854-3888 > >e-mail: shsnyder@sover.net > > > > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Friends,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I service a harpsichord built by Eric Herz in >1969. 2 manuals, 2- 8ft, 1- 16ft and 1 - 4ft. Several strings have >broken in the lowest octave in both the 8 ft and 4 ft registers. The wire >is not steel - some looks like brass and some looks like copper.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 3 questions - 1. Does any one have experience >with this type of instrument? 2. What exactly is this wire made of? >and </FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Where can I get the wire. Any help >would be gratly appreciated.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen Snyder<BR>Piano Technician<BR>342 Scotts >Lake Road<BR>Salem, NY 12865<BR>518-854-3888</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>e-mail: <A >href="mailto:shsnyder@sover.net">shsnyder@sover.net</A></FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> >
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