> > > > > By the way, if there is NO way I could get 10 > octaves, > > I could settle for 8 and a half (C0 to G8). > Contrary > > to what Bruce Stevens in Bellflower, CA, says, 88 > keys > > (or even 97) just isn't enough for my style of > > playing. :) > > If you're willing to pay for the tooling and custom > work, anything can be > built. Again, the question will be whether or not > the thing will be > realistically playable when it is finished. You > might spend some time > looking at the differences in design between that > 150 cm grand and a typical > 275 cm grand and then consider what additional > compromises will have to be > made to stretch the thing out to 444.5 cm. (Why 14' > 7"? Where does that > number come from?) > Just off the top of my head. Basically I'd like either the A0 string length (low A on a normal 88-key piano) to be longer than the same note in the 1924 11 foot 8 inch Challen baby (yes, I know I should say "concert"...) grand, which has an A1 string length of 9 feet 11 inches (119 inches), OR I would like it long enough to have wound bichords as low as C1 or A0, have the plain trichords start at C2 or lower, and have the bass/treble break at B1/C2 or lower (wherever the wound string/plain string break is, unless, if there are wound trichords, it would be better to put it either at the bichord/trichord break or in the middle of the trichords. > > > > > I'm curious about something: What do you think > would > > be the best possible scale it'd be possible to > have in > > a small upright that, say, is 39 inches tall and > 60 > > inches wide? (by scale I mean speaking length, # > of > > notes on bass bridge, start of bichord and > trichord > > strings). Provided that there's a way to have a > > halfway decent backlength and whatever, would it > be > > possible to have an A1 speaking length of, say, 45 > or > > 48 inches, start the bichords at note A1, the > > trichords at D#3 and have the break at D3/D#3? > > This is something you can really figure out for > yourself. Go back and read > the articles I wrote on the problems of small piano > design in the Journal > (July, 1997 and April, 1998). Most of what you will > need to work this out is > in there. Would it be on the Journal reprints CD by any chance? If so, what should I search for? > > Del > Delwin D Fandrich > Piano Designer & Builder > Hoquiam, Washington USA > E.mail: pianobuilders@olynet.com > Web Site: www.pianobuilders.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
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