Piano Size & Shape

[Farrell]

Hi Del. Tuned a piano yesterday and thought about you and this post. 1927 5'
5" Sohmer Cupid Model. What a nice little piano. Cheek blocks about 3/4"
wide and then the rim. Piano was not more than 3" wider than the keyboard.
Real trim little petite rear end - just wide enough for the bass bridge
(might such a small rear soundboard area be insufficient for bass?). The
piano really had a Paris model look about it - long and lean - and that can
look real attractive!

Piano had a nice hefty rim, four or five big braces running from the belly
rail to the rim, etc. Not much of a cut-off bar for the soundboard - long
bridge was really off to the one side of the board. Big, big sound to the
piano (of course I had just come from tuning what was likely the worst, most
dead, Kimball spinet I had ever tuned), tone was not so hot, but you gotta
wonder what was screwed up when the piano was restrung and new hammers, etc.

FWIW.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: Piano Size & Shape


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