----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Overs" <sec@overspianos.com.au> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: August 03, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: Re: current upright stringing scales? > Del and list, > > >. . . . . . . > >The Fandrich 122 had a 32 note bass section with 12 mono-chords and 20 > >bi-chords, all on the bass bridge. If there is another version of this piano > >it will use the same string layout--i.e., 32 unisons on the bass bridge--but > >will use 14 mono-chords and 18 bi-chords. > > I presume you meant to type "32 notes on the bass bridge" - and not > ". . unisons . . ". No, I meant 32 unisons. I also meant "notes." Take your pick. As applied to the piano the words "unison" (which may be made up of one, two or three strings) and "note" have been used more-or-less interchangeably over the years. One of my old mentors, Emil Fries (of Piano Hospital fame) was a real stickler on this, correcting me several times: "Notes are those funny little marks printers put on paper so the pianist who depends on printed music will know which keys to press." (Emil was blind and didn't depend on printed anything unless it was in brail.) Unisons were the groups of strings in the piano that corresponded to those notes. I'm not sure the definitions are quite that clear-cut. At least not to my confused mind. I tend to switch back and forth just to confuse the confusable. Del
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