Smallest Grand Made

Farrell mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com
Thu Jul 6 14:23:09 MDT 2006


Ahhh-HA! Still got you beat - this rascal had 88 keys!

The Monington & Weston only has six octaves!

Definitely a noteworthy state of sadness though......  ;-(

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Smallest Grand Made


> 
>> I tuned a 1930 Wissner grand yesterday. It measured....... R U sitting 
>> down?........  a full four-feet four-inches long (or rather - short).
>>  
>> 4' 4"!
>>  
>> I've never seen anything that small - isn't the Kimball "La Petite" 
>> grand 4' 10" or so?
>>  
>> Yikes!
>>  
>> Anyone ever see anything that small? Or ....... gulp ....... smaller?
>>  
>> Terry Farrell
> 
> 
> How about a 3'10"?
> http://www.courtneypianos.co.uk/grand-types.html
> 
> Ron N
>



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