screw-stringers

[Porritt, David]

Back in the late 1970s Horace Comstock said that Aeolian ran a cost
sheet on reintroducing the screw stringer.  They came to the conclusion
that it was not economically feasible as a factory stringer can
generally string 4 backs a day but the screw stringer would take 2 days
to do one.  

I had one for several years and I thought 2 days was probably
optimistic!

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt@smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Calin Tantareanu
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:23 AM
To: mags@magsmusic.net; Pianotech
Subject: Re: screw-stringers

There were several types of screw stringers. Mason & Hamlin had one
system, 
then there was the English company Brinsmead and a few others.
I find the basic idea very good, Perhaps it was too much ahead of its
time.

 Calin Tantareanu
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