large uprights

[Stephen Airy]

One idea i have for something to do with a "spinet-size" piano is to make 
it into a desk or a pump organ (but then you'd have problems with pipe 
length in the bass.
At 08:12 PM 11/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Del,
>
>I am pretty sure the only spinet pianos still in production are the Wurlitzer
>1175 (traditional oak) and 1176 (Queen Anne cherry).  Several years ago Kent
>Webb said they still make them because there is a market for them, which is
>exactly the same reason the large uprights *aren't* being made.
>
>Regards, Clyde
>
>Delwin D Fandrich 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.)


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