David: >The reason, at present, we have different string lengths is >spreading the hitchpins out on the plate, rather than in a >line...for the plates sake... There's also the staggering of the tuning pin rows. So two backlengths have to be the same, but all front lengths are different (in a normal design). Imaginary hypothetical pianos are subject only to the laws of physics, though, and assumed immune from all practical difficulties ;-) Stephen -- Dr Stephen Birkett Piano Design Lab Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1 tel: 519-888-4567 Ext. 3792 Lab room E3-3160 Ext. 7115 mailto: sbirkett[at]real.uwaterloo.ca http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett
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