Weird Spinet

Joe Garrett joegarrett@earthlink.net
Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:47:51 -0800


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Friday, I had the dubious honor of "tuning" a 1939 "Musette". Sheesh! It =
was parallel stung w/a single bridge/giant hockey stick, (you could hit =
the puck from anywhere on the ice!). More bi-chord wound stings than I =
wanted to count! Harmonics----nothing matched! Real fun, to say the =
least. The poor owner had bought it at a "University Sale", for $2,000! =
(Gawd, I hate those sales!...even more now!) The odd thing was that the =
piano was constructed very well. Nice Ivory, action was nice, =
throughout. Played nice, just sounded like crap! The whole thing closed =
up like a square grand. I hope this was the only one ever made, so that =
none of you have to try and work on anything like it. BTW, it had a =
grand lyre, w/only two functioning pedals, (the middle rod was attached =
to a spring on the underside of the keybed. Lovely! :-(
I usually relish working on the weird, but not this one!
Regards,
Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
Captain, Tool Police
Squares R I
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