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Thanks Bill, In the meantime I have been doing some searching too. I discovered a company that produces wire that matches the characteristics of the wire used around 1860 - 1890. http://www.puresound-wire.com/ It has information on wire gauges used at the time. Apparently Pohlmann wire was most comm...

I have a Richard Lipp upright circa 1885 that I have started restoring. I have a couple of questions that someone may be able to answer: 1. The bass strings winding is a silvery colour (rather than copper colour). It is not iron/steel . I suspect it is "German Silver" otherwise known as cu...

Hi from a fellow Kiwi. I bought a 1980 UX3 recently. I too became disappointed with a tone that stopped short. Being an amateur restorer I tried restringing one note in the treble and found that it improved matters considerably - so I went on and restrung the whole thing. The difference was quite co...