Dare I say that Raul is Castro d'Tappo... Anonanon On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:43 PM, John Delacour <JD at pianomaker.co.uk> wrote: > At 18:16 -0400 31/3/08, Farrell wrote: > > >Um, not to seem overly critical or picky, but the plate is that hard > >heavy metal thingee that the strings are tied to. It's the big gold > >thing you see when you open the lid of the piano. I think that big > >flat wooden thingee under the strings and under the big heavy metal > >thingee is called a soundboard or sumptin'. > > And not to be over-critical of American usage, that hard metal thing > is called in England the iron frame or metal frame, and Theodore > Steinway refers to it as the metal frame. A plate by definition is > flat or sometimes domed and is a totally inapt term to use for the > metal frame. The "soundboard" of violins etc. is correctly referred > to as the "plate". That part of the metal frame where the hitchpins > are is also a plate, the hitch plate, which existed before metal > frames existed and which was eventually cast in to the metal frame. > I don't know when Americans started calling the frame the plate, but > it's certainly a misnomer. As to capo tasto, capotasto, capo > d'astro, capodastro and, lately on this list "capo tastro", the only > literate one of this glorious collection is the first and a capo > tasto has no place in a piano. The fact that Steinway cast one or > other of these illiterate misnomers into his old metal frames, which > were presumably not yet misnamed plates, does not give it any > validity. > > JD > > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew > Dorset DT11 0HX * England > Phone: +44 1202 731031 > Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 * Fax: +44 870 705 3241 > ______________________________________________________________________ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080331/da527f59/attachment.html
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