---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I'm really curious about this repeated assertion: This is an original Bird Cage/Over-Damper-Style instrument predating 1850. These pianos were typically manufactured with wood plates (emphasis mine) instead of the full metal plate construction which came after 1860, as pioneered by Steinway. Pre-1860 instruments were traditionally tuned to a lower concert pitch in the A435 range, simply because the instruments' wooden plates were not designed to take more foot-pounds of string tension. All pitch history aside, I have yet to encounter a wooden plate and have a hard time imagining such a beast, can anyone enlighten me? Doesnt the metal plate date back to Alpheus Babcock in the '30's? Maybe he's thinking of Geo Wash's teeth..... -- ----Dave ----------------------------- Dave Doremus RPT New Orleans algiers_piano@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/dc/1c/ac/9d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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