Steinway Duplex Placement

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Ric writes:

<< The idea 

of the duplex('s) was to configure some pre-determined fractional

relationship to the speaking length into the back and front lengths, yes ? >>

I don't think so.  The staggered lengths formed by the Steinway system are 
obviously not to scale, so I suppose that the overall effect was more important 
than the ratios  of individual notes to backscale. 



Ed Foote RPT 
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