Agree on plastic. Probably nylon or delrin. DEsign cound be a knock off of a modified string mute (aka harmonic/wolf tone killer) similar to those used on harpsichord. Wish there were closeups. Gerry From: PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:11:03 -0500 To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] "fluid piano" In a message dated 11/23/2009 1:01:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, cousins_gerry at msn.com writes: What's the fluiid? WD40? Just kidding Pretty interesting build. Wonder if the market would accept this radical of a design. Ditto on CalArts. Any idea as to the price? I didn't see any mention. Gerry C WCUPA I would think the only "market" would be experimental music programs and those who wish to play microtonal music with that voice. Pretty restricted, but very interesting. I could not see a plate structure. One wonders about overall tensions and tension change. Also, the sliders looked like plastic? Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091123/0fa22d91/attachment.htm>
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