Transcriber’s Note:

The original contains inconsistent hyphenation; this has been preserved. Obvious printer’s errors have been corrected; a full list is available at the end of this book.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

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William B. White

Theory and Practice of
PIANO CONSTRUCTION

With a Detailed, Practical
Method for Tuning

Dover Publications, Inc.
New York


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Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC 2.

This Dover edition, first published in 1975, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Edward Lyman Bill, Publisher, New York, in 1906 under the title Theory and Practice of Pianoforte Building.

International Standard Book Number: 0-486-23139-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-78811

Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc.
180 Varick Street
New York, N.Y. 10014