Del, Baldwin made at least one stab at helping the technician when they changed from trichoird unisons to one string per note. It seems to me that not only the mechanical part but also the transducers must have been designed by sales and marketing. In my experience the pickup was not consistent from one end of the scale to the other. In a message dated 98-05-29 11:21:26 EDT, you write: << The basic concept of replacing the entire soundboard assembly with a series of transducers was, to me at least, an exciting one. I was able to study the technology fairly thoroughly for a time. I thought at the time that it had a lot of potential in real musical instruments. I still do. >> Bill Maxim
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