At 09:41 AM 11/17/2000 -0800, Del wrote: >I can find no rational excuse for continuing to build spinet pianos. >Regardless of the length of their bass strings. (I still haven't figured >out why they were introduced in the first place.) They are smaller (lower anyway) and don't overpower a small room either visually or aurally, they are lighter and easier to move, especially to walk-up apartments and choir masters can see and direct over them. I'm just off to "tune" one now... a 40 year-old mahogany plywood soundboarded Canadian spinet that until last summer had dried-out old foam rubber instead of cloth on the back rail, hammer rail, spring rail and let-off rail and the kids had already taken 4 years of lessons on it. It's a "family heirloom" and it's all they can afford so we have to do what we have to do... which in my case includes wearing my ER-15 earplugs while tuning it. John John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada http://www.musselwhite.com http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary email: john@musselwhite.com http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom
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