Brinsmead "History of the Pianoforte"

[Richard Moody]

Thanks for the info on Brinsmead.   If anyone has or knows of this
book for
sale please let me know.    ---ric

----- Original Message -----
From: John Delacour <JD@Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: Equal Temperament, history of, judgement of


| At 11:05 PM -0600 26/2/02, Richard Moody wrote:
| >I am intersted in where the Brinsmead factory  scale came from?  Is
this
| >published, or archived somewhere?   ---ric
|
| It forms part of the chapter "Useful Hints and Directions" in Edgar
| Brinsmead's "History of the Pianoforte", first published in 1869 I
| believe.  I have the 1869 edition and an 1889 edition that I've just
| acquired, and this chapter is the same in both.
|
| The later edition begins with chapters on vibrations and a
| frontispiece showing the Chladni patterns.  This is significant, it
| seems to me, because it suggests that the Brinsmeads had looked
quite
| closely into these matters, and the results of this research were
| refelected in the tone of the later pianos, particularly the grands.
|
| The book in general is more tantalizing than informative from a
| technical point of view.  There are usually copies for sale in the
| out of print section of <http://bn.com/> for not much money.
|
| JD
|