lightweight pianos

[Stephen Airy]

Basically I want it to have 88 keys and hammers &
strings.

--- Charles Neuman <cneuman@phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > pedal and sustain pedal.  What do you RPTs think
> is
> > the smallest it is possible to build such a piano?
> 
> I'll bet if NASA wanted a piano in space, they'd
> find a way to make a
> lightweight piano. Suppose you weren't limited by
> money? You could make a
> titanium plate. Would that be strong enough? The
> next heaviest thing would
> be the cabinet. Lightweight plastic might work
> there. Any other metal
> parts would also be titanium, or some lightweight
> material. Action parts
> might be plastic.
> 
> Your idea is what led Harold Rhodes to invent the
> Rhodes keyboard.  He
> wasn't looking for funky new sounds. He wanted a
> small portable piano that
> could be used for entertaining wounded airmen in the
> military. The 73-key
> models can be carried by a single person if he
> happens to be a
> professional mover or the like, but most normal
> people need a handtruck to
> move it around. I think most of the weight is in the
> wooden cabinet.
> 
> Charles Neuman
> 
> 


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