At 10:06 pm -0500 1/5/02, Wayne Yockey, RPT wrote: | It turns out that this Broadwood is an ex-player so I'm not so sure how good the | touch might be. I don't think that my customer is interested in that particular | broadwood any more, but if she came across another one (non-player) she might | be interested in that. At that period Broadwood fitted a Paris-made Herrburger-Schwander action with the special repetition spring, as used by Bechstein. The player demanded a particularly fast action and the Herrburger upright action is about the best upright action ever made. Your client should be very wary. Broadwood uprights from about 1900 - 1914 were excellent, particularly those with the green back (string plate painted dark green instead of gold). Besides the overstrungs they also build a very sweet-sounding small straight strung upright with a Herrburger underdamper action. However, the closer you get to our days, the worse the Broadwoods get. I personally would never touch any Broadwood upright after 1914. JD
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