Some time ago I acquired an octave of treble pipes, claimed to be from a Schulze Cello rank. Does anyone have a record of typical Schulze scaling to compare? If it is likely that they are, I might try to use them in the practice instrument that is (very) slowly taking shape here, otherwise they are likely to remain in the dusty box they've been in for a while.
Simon.
It isn't the scaling that will lend much authenticity - are these pipes wooden? Do you know which Schultze it's supposed to be?
If they ARE wooden, the construction and details of things such a blocks, caps and the mouth details (beards, ears etc.) are the tell-tales, plus any inked marks on the pipes.
If I had a fiver for every time someone has told us that "......the Oboe in the Swell is a Cavaille-Coll rank!"...........
DW
Isn't St Peter's church in Hindley supposed to contain the most well-known Schulze string ranks? Or have I remembered this wrongly?
Were all the string pipes wooden, or was the top end of a rank sometimes metal? These are well made in spotted metal, which might rule them straight out of the equasion.
Simon.