I can confirm that in the Henle movie they explicitely mention lead plates.
Am 11.02.2013 18:12, schrieb Shane Brandes:
Pewter is really shiny when it is first cast. And it takes a liltle
while to oxidize. I have cast a few things in pewter and also pipe
metal (for organ pipes) which is essentially a high tin pewter. The
pipe metal will stay shiny a long time and only really needs to be
buffed to get rid of the oxidization.
Shane
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:08 AM, bobr...@centrum.is
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> On 11 February 2013 10:23, Shane Brandes <sh...@grayskies.net
<mailto:sh...@grayskies.net>> wrote:
>>
>> The hand engraving was amazing. I liked the "I don't make
mistakes"
>> quote.
>>
>> Shane
>
>
> I never thought much about how music used to be engraved, but when I
> did there were always more questions than answers.
>
> I'm surprised how close it was to writing out music by hand. With a
> strong style guide and engravers with decades of experience,
it's not
> surprising they waited a while for typesetting software to catch up.
>
>> It makes you wonder what sort of metal exactly the plates are.
>
> According to
>
http://musicprintinghistory.org/music-engraving/about-music-engraving.html
> , zinc, copper or pewter.
>
> Vaughan
The plate in the video is shiny silver, so it clearly can't be
copper. Zinc
and pewter tend to be dull. My guess is that it was aluminium.
In one of the videos I heard the mention of lead. Given how
gentle the hammer strokes were I think they were probably lead.
Lead is shiny when freshly scraped.
-David
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