"transposing" Old Uprights

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:31:21 -0600


Ricco,

At 10:09 02/14/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>> Remove all the screws holding the keyframe to the keybed and
>>slide the keys one note to the right
>
>Talk about a " cheap trick"  ; )  But it has merit. The last 3 old
>uprights I tuned are better off half a step low. 

So maybe that's the real reason why Ĉolian had transposing keyboards
(optional) in the early 1900's??
All you did was shift the keyboard.  

Conrad




 

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