I agree with this!  While living in India, I made an harpsichord for a 
friend and, to do that, I researched first principles and then drew my 
own full-size plans.

Tom Roach
Waterloo, Ontario
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On 2017-03-19 4:15 AM, David Pickett wrote:
> At 01:10 19-03-17, Richard Schaumloffel wrote:
>
> >Xerox machines have been only able to copy up to 900mm for a long
> >time. They replaced the old diazo machines which could go up to 1100mm
> >and they could print on sensitized mylar. It would have been good if
> >the manufacures had considered the needs of harpsichord makers.
> >Locally in Adelaide I can get plans scanned to well over 1100mm and
> >take them to a printer with a bubble jet printer which will do over
> >1100mm. The catch is that it costs $100 square metre it may also be
> >possible to use the process to print on mylar. Unfortunately you will
> >never get the accuracy of a diazo contact print.
>
> The upside of this (he wrote tongue in cheek) may be that it forces 
> harpsichord builders to turn to more authenticke methods used in the 
> olden tymes that do not rely upon 1:1 drawings.
>
> David
>
> (Lights blue touch paper and runs)
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