At 07:13 -0700 17/6/10, Joseph Garrett wrote: >JD harrumphed: "Since when is "upstop rail" a correct term?!" > >JD, >Since we took the German and translated it. <G> (to American >English<G>) Try getting a copy of Mason's Piano Nomanclature so that >you arent' quite so confused.<G> >Joe The German is Dmpferpralleiste, so lord knows what confused person did the translation. The thing is called the (damper) stop rail. In England, where it was invented before the Germans even had modern-style dampers, it is also called the damper check rail or, on an upright, the slap rail. Upstop is pure nonsense, Mason or not. If Mason is as useless as Schimmel's Nomenclatur it has no value anyway. JD
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