maxpiano wrote: > "One of my favorite features is the elimination of the tri-chords in the > bass." > > Not to belittle Ron, but Charles M. Stieff hit upon this idea in 1895! > A church in Simpsonville, SC has Stieff concert grand #12,753 (1895 > according to Pierce). No sign of ever being rebuilt. The plate is > bored for trichord unisons in the bass but only two holes bored in the > pin block; and the bridge is pinned for two-string unisons. > > One more proof that great minds run in the same direction, even if a > century in between! > > Bill Maxim > <http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm> What I've always wondered, is why the wrapped trichord ever existed in the first place. Ron N
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