Harpsichord

Clark caccola@net1plus.com
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:30:32 -0100


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John,

Frank Hubbard's Harpsichord Regulating and Repairing which the Hubbard
kits come with makes no mention of how far the becket should protrude, nor
how many coils there should be. I built an instrument using the same kind
of zither pins and put about 7 turns onto each with the beckets protruding
far enough to keep the top coil in place, tightening the coils with a
piano string lifter and driving them to set bearing afterwards. A couple
of Hubbard employees have seen 'em and haven't said they were wrong,
anyways.

Hubbard is no longer using or supplying these zither pins, in part because
they are shorter than traditional pins but mainly because of inconsistent
sizing. Their new pins, with holes, are great!

Clark Panaccione

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