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Hi all, 

I have a customer with a square piano, made here in Finland in 1849. It's missing quite a few of the bass strings, and I was thinking of replacing the whole set. 

These are the characteristic old-type strings where the coils bend around the pins (see attached pics). The winding is of copper, and the core is of brass. The copper is much more loosely winded than on modern pianos.

There are most probably fellow techs in this forum that has dealt with jobs like these. My questions are:

1) Is there a place to order older strings like these?

2) Could it be "modernized" (the customer wants a playable piano, not necessarily an authentic stringing) by using the modern method of using winding only in the speaking length of the strings?

Any kind of help would be much appreciated.

Hi all, 

I have a customer with a square piano, made here in Finland in 1849. It's missing quite a few of the bass strings, and I was thinking of replacing the whole set. 

These are the characteristic old-type strings where the coils bend around the pins (see attached pics). The winding is of copper, and the core is of brass. The copper is much more loosely winded than on modern pianos.

There are most probably fellow techs in this forum that has dealt with jobs like these. My questions are:

1) Is there a place to order older strings like these?

2) Could it be "modernized" (the customer wants a playable piano, not necessarily an authentic stringing) by using the modern method of using winding only in the speaking length of the strings?

Any kind of help would be much appreciated.

Hi all, 

I have a customer with a square piano, made here in Finland in 1849. It's missing quite a few of the bass strings, and I was thinking of replacing the whole set. 

These are the characteristic old-type strings where the coils bend around the pins (see attached pics). The winding is of copper, and the core is of brass. The copper is much more loosely winded than on modern pianos.

There are most probably fellow techs in this forum that has dealt with jobs like these. My questions are:

1) Is there a place to order older strings like these?

2) Could it be "modernized" (the customer wants a playable piano, not necessarily an authentic stringing) by using the modern method of using winding only in the speaking length of the strings?

Any kind of help would be much appreciated.

Hi all, 

I have a customer with a square piano, made here in Finland in 1849. It's missing quite a few of the bass strings, and I was thinking of replacing the whole set. 

These are the characteristic old-type strings where the coils bend around the pins (see attached pics). The winding is of copper, and the core is of brass. The copper is much more loosely winded than on modern pianos.

There are most probably fellow techs in this forum that has dealt with jobs like these. My questions are:

1) Is there a place to order older strings like these?

2) Could it be "modernized" (the customer wants a playable piano, not necessarily an authentic stringing) by using the modern method of using winding only in the speaking length of the strings?

Any kind of help would be much appreciated.

Hi all, 

I have a customer with a square piano, made here in Finland in 1849. It's missing quite a few of the bass strings, and I was thinking of replacing the whole set. 

These are the characteristic old-type strings where the coils bend around the pins (see attached pics). The winding is of copper, and the core is of brass. The copper is much more loosely winded than on modern pianos.

There are most probably fellow techs in this forum that has dealt with jobs like these. My questions are:

1) Is there a place to order older strings like these?

2) Could it be "modernized" (the customer wants a playable piano, not necessarily an authentic stringing) by using the modern method of using winding only in the speaking length of the strings?

Any kind of help would be much appreciated.