Terry, Sorry about the term... You can read the explanation I wrote to Joe Garret. Rafael Huberman On 26/08/2009, at 02:17 p.m., Terry Farrell wrote: Indeed Joe. I saw that, but then forgot to ask - what the heck is a double plate? Terry Farrell > > Rafael, > Hmmm? First, not enough information for proper scaling help. > Secondly, I'm wondering what a "double plate" is??? Since I > specialize in Olde and Odd painos, that's a term or configuration > I've only seen once. That particular incidence was a large upright > with a plate in the back of the piano, as well as a plate inside the > piano. Both were strung with identical scales. Both shared one sound > board. The one on the back could only be tuned by chipping! There > was no damping of the back plate/strings, hence it was > sympathetically activated by the least little sound! Really an > annoying piano to say the least. It was not a Steinway & Sons. It > would be nice if you could send some pictures illustrating what you > call a "double plate". I'm sure others would be interested, as well. > Regards, > Joe > > > Joe Garrett, R.P.T. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090826/e5499ddb/attachment-0001.htm>
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