Now if he could design a way to change out the dowels for different voices...:-) Or vary the strike point? P In a message dated 11/23/2009 12:52:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, fssturm at unm.edu writes: Interesting mechanism, too: looks like the "hammers" are dowels with felt on the end, arranged kind of like harpsichord jacks, that are propelled up to hit the strings. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico _fssturm at unm.edu_ (mailto:fssturm at unm.edu) On Nov 23, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Donald McKechnie wrote: Which school in the US will be the first to get one of these? CalArts I bet! :-) _http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-mus ic_ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music) Donald McKechnie Piano Technician Ithaca College _dmckech at ithaca.edu_ (mailto:dmckech at ithaca.edu) 607.274.3908 = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091123/1184b1aa/attachment.htm>
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