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3 unusual facts about Streicher


Streicher

Mike Streicher (born ?, Findlay, Ohio), an American auto racing driver

Ludwig Streicher (1920 - 2003), a contrabass is from Vienna, Austria.

Michael A. Streicher (1921 - 2006), an American metallurgist and engineer who became internationally recognized


Jean-Henri Pape

Pape concentrated on defects in square and grand pianos caused by the structural gap between the sounding board and wrest plank allowing the hammers to strike the strings; the solution of placing actions above the strings had been imagined by Marius, then Hildebrand and finally Streicher in Vienna, but instead of levers and counterweights Pape's arrangement used a coil spring to raise the hammers quickly and with almost no effect on touch.

Michael Streicher

He was born on September 6, 1921, in Heidelberg, Germany, the son of Johann Simon Streicher and Olga Schmidt Streicher.

Swellendam

Some of the well known families that settled in the region and have stayed for decades are the Barry family, the Moodies from Scotland, the Steyns, the Streicher family, the van Eedens, the Rothmanns, the Tomlinson and the Dunn family


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