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I fully concur with the previous answers. I still carry a stock of bronce wire from the 80's, which was at that time available through piano-parts retailers. Typically, the diameters would be stepped in 0,05 mm jumps, you could get 1 mm, 0.95, 0.90, 0,85 etc and under 0.25 it broke up to smaller differences, below 0.20. The stuff is a good deal harder than the soft brasses that have become available later, you instantly notice it when you make a stringloop with a hook in a dowel and your fingers. On our plucked boxes they tend to sound metallic with an edge on.The only reason I carried bronce and steel (Röslau) was to supply many Indian stringed instruments and their many choirs of sympathetic resonance strings. But the stock comes in handy every now and again to replace broken strings from early Dowds and the revivals. So in my book, bronce has this revivalist reputation, which is why I wonder what the instrument might be like? Plastic jacks? Keybushings and lead?

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