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Rodney Myrvaagnes <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Mar 2016 22:41:34 -0500
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One data point.  We have in our apt. used in rotation nearly every day,
two harpsichords I made in 1972, Both are inner-outer Italians. One is
C/E-f3, with spits for f# and G#. The other was originally GG/BB-d3. Its
bass short octave was changed by request of my wife, but has an
unchanged string band,

The soundboards, and the other glueing, was done with original
Titebond,fresh.  I did change to hot hide glue for later work, but
neither of these has shown signs of creep in over forty years. I did
shoot the joints very carefully, so there is very little glue in them.

Both instruments have aged pleasingly to my ear. The first has a cypress
inner case and sitka soundboard.. The second is alaska yellow cedar for
the IC and the soundboard.

Opus 1 has always been in bird quill. the other I changed to delrin when
I was renting it out in the late 70s, but changed back to quills later.

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 Rodney Myrvaagnes
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2016, at 02:13, Andrew Seemann wrote:
> OK, now that the glue bottle has come uncorked, I have a question that
> has bothered me in reading glue discussions on this and other forums.  I
>

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