On Sat, 3 Feb 1996 TACOLE9675@aol.com wrote: > Dave > > I just read your post about not applying pin dope when re-installing a > harpsichord pin...unless it's a Sperrhake. I have a customer who has such an > instrument (virginal) and wants to sell it. Are you saying that it's a bogus > harpsichord? > > Tom Cole > Sorry, I shouldnt be facetious in print. Its not bogus, just mass produced very cheaply, and not related to historic design, hence not really interesting or valuable. There are a lot of these kinds of instruments out there mostly stemming from the days before Hubbard and Dowd and others dragged the early keyboard "industry" kicking and screaming into the past. Dave Doremus, RPT dbd01@www.gnofn.org New Orleans *************************************************************************** Music came first; then the scales...; then...the theorists to explain them. And as they knew more of mathematics than of musical history they laid down laws which, in actual fact, no human being had ever obeyed. (Percy Buck) ***************************************************************************
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