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Are there any Square Piano restorers out there in D-I-Y land?
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Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)
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Are there any restorers of Square Pianos out there in D-I-Y land? (what I should have asked)
That sounds a bit crude. The complexity of the innards of a piano used to
fascinate me. Obviously its not just one string for each note which is
tuned, but I never did get into the way it was all supposed to work.
Brian
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Hmmm, a badly structured question. Hopefully it makes more sense now.
On 28/01/2021 12:12,
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A bit of a long-shot but ... is there anyone out there who has restored,
is restoring, or has worked on a 19th century square piano?
It says here, it has to be restored, before it can be tuned.
https://antiquepianoshop.com/square-grand-pianos/
Makes for a cheap instrument :-) Replacing
all the strings, dampers, and degrade-able materials.
I guess you get to keep the original wood.
You could keep the strings and the "untuneable nature",
if you had one of these autotuners. Average operating
power = 800W to keep the piano in precise tune. The
800W represents the amount of heat needed to pull the
piano from initial tuning state, into tune.
https://newatlas.com/gilmore-self-tu...-system/21425/
So rather than rotate a peg to tune the string,
it uses electricity and heat in the string, to
set the frequency.
Paul
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