Scaling

Anne Beetem abeetem@wizard.net
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:03:21 -0500


>Del and Susan
>Please allow me to offer an idea to solve the entire situation without
>having to rely on a lot of engineering.
>
>Simply install a mechanism on the bridge that works like the sharping
>levers  on a harp. You throw a lever of simple design and one string of
>each unison is sharped just enough to creatre a 6.5 hz beat. This will
>give the entire piano a lovely vibrato so that no one will know what
>temperment you have used anyway.

>
>Imagine what maketing could do for that piano?!!?
>
>Ralph Martin
>
Ralph!   Now this is an innovative idea!     Pitch bender for the acoustic
piano.  What fun the kids would have with that.....


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Anne Beetem
Harpsichords & Historic Pianos
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Reston, VA  20191
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