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My apologies, I thought I'd found the PDF on this site but it was in the "care and restoration" section of the www.friendsofsquarepianos.co.uk website.
The action must be secured somehow so I clearly need to look harder.

Thanks for the reply, Bill. So it would seem that it's nearer to 1835 than 1837; the oldest musical instrument in the house. I'll add some photos of the instrument and the markings. I've had time, now, to look more closely at it. The lower action has 4 octaves and the upper has 2. There don't seem t...

I've recently acquired a Collard & Collard square piano which (mostly) plays but needs a fair bit of cleaning, TLC and tuning. I haven't started investigating yet (and there are other projects ahead of it) but it would be good to hear from anyone who has restored one. As far as I can tell the S/...