[CAUT] A New Way to Look at It

[Jorgensen, Michael L]

Hello,
    If an average string speaking length were say 2 feet long, and a piano had 230 strings, that's 460 feet of speaking length strings per piano.  Multiply that by an inventory of 100 and you have 46,000 feet, or about nine miles of piano strings under horrific tension which must stay constant to keep the piano sounding ok and the whole thing is suspended over wood.   Ooops!,  I forgot strings are longer than mere speaking lengths.  Now add humidity and climate, and more moving parts per piano than in a car, mostly made out of wood and felt which must function in precision to work.    Yikes, they shouldn't work at all.  
-Mike Jorgensen