----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Forsyth" <alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk> To: <files@ptg.org> Sent: May 28, 2003 5:27 AM Subject: Triple overstrung upright > For PIANOTECH List > > Does anyone think that this could have just been a prototype or > experimental version? Keeping in mind that many "prototypes" end up being prototypes only because production couldn't get going and/or nobody bought the early production instruments. > > The keyboard and action slide out as a unit, but there is no una corda > mechanism which is a pity. Many German pianos of this era had this > feature. And I wonder why more don't have it today. It's not all that difficult to design and/or build and shouldn't add all that much to the final cost. What with some of the European vertical pianos priced upwards of $30K it would seem that a few dollars could have been spent actually improving their performance. Among the exhibits in Sydney several years back I examined a Japanese vertical with this feature. While it still looked a bit unfinished it did work reasonably well and couldn't have added all that much to the production cost. > > I have been asked to re-string the beast and am thinking that I will > have to use 3 separate sheets of paper to rub the bass string patterns. This is > really going to bamboozle the string makers. I shouldn't think they will give it much thought. At least I can't see it will make their job any more difficult. Del
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