large uprights

[John Musselwhite]

At 09:41 AM 11/17/2000 -0800, Del wrote:

>I can find no rational excuse for continuing to build spinet pianos.
>Regardless of the length of their bass strings.  (I still haven't figured
>out why they were introduced in the first place.)

They are smaller (lower anyway) and don't overpower a small room either 
visually or aurally, they are lighter and easier to move, especially to 
walk-up apartments and choir masters can see and direct over them.

I'm just off to "tune" one now... a 40 year-old mahogany plywood 
soundboarded Canadian spinet that until last summer had dried-out old foam 
rubber instead of cloth on the back rail, hammer rail, spring rail and 
let-off rail and the kids had already taken 4 years of lessons on it. It's 
a "family heirloom" and it's all they can afford so we have to do what we 
have to do... which in my case includes wearing my ER-15 earplugs while 
tuning it.

                 John





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