Bush & Gerts

[Jon Page]

At 08:14 PM 3/19/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Worked on a Bush and Gerts, 1896 year, according to the Piano Atlas.
>Beautiful cabinet, but what was inside was pretty much beyond useful life.
>HOWEVER, there were several extra sets of strings.  1 Bass String below A0,
>a tri-chord above the treble break, and another tri chord further up.
>There were no hammers, no keys, no action of any kind for these strings,
>and no room to add any.  The strings had been muted off with rubber wedges.
>
>Why?
>
>
>Ed Carwithen
>John Day, OR
> 
My guess is that the is piano has a transposing keyboard which can be
moved a half step. 


Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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