When you are finished building,

Fischer, J. Piano Tuning, A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs.
1907
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17571

> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17571

Nice find!

-C.

(Edited, but I think better than the Fischer one)

http://www.geocities.com/threesixesinarow/faust.htm

http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/
Kurze_Anleitung_zu_einer_richtigen_Kenntniß_und_Behandlung_der_Forte-
Pianos

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "threesixesinarow" <music.conx@...>
wrote:
>
> http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/
> Kurze_Anleitung_zu_einer_richtigen_Kenntniß_und_Behandlung_der_Forte-
> Pianos

....and if I spoke fluent German, the above page would probably mean
something to me.....

The authors disagree in places and it's not my fault if you can't read
it

http://books.google.com/books?vid=0OqOtNaNKfwET6Ox&id=-
EN1MDxG74sC&printsec=titlepage

William Braid White, Modern Piano Tuning and Allied Arts. Edward
Lyman Bill, New York 1917

http://www.archive.org/details/modernpianotunin00whit

Heinrich Welcker von Gontershausen, Neu eröffnetes Magazin
musikalischer Tonwerkzeuge, dargestellt in technischen Zeichnungen
aller Saite- Blas- Schlag & Frictions-Instrumente, Abschnitt III.
Frankfurt a/m. 1855

http://books.google.com/books?id=SdsPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA355