It's a spinet, belonging to a piano teacher. The low tenor sounds like something somewhere between a dobro and a cigar box banjo. Hammer alignment to strings not purely serendipitous, but mostly just nearly in the ballpark. Last tuned in 1989. Lots of loose pins, "snappy" but just barely (or not) holding string tension, as if the block had been oiled. Treble gloriously wild, with tuning by least bad criteria in effect, and the best you could expect. Quarter semitone+ pitch raise after re-mounting the letoff rail on the brackets and tightening the screws, which was the reason for the service call in the first place since the blocking hammers coincidentally corresponded with the young-un spilling a drink on the music desk and fallboard. None of this so far differentiates this from any other poor misbegotten pianoid wraith, but it boasted (?) the claim to "Ori-Coustic" tone on the fallboard. What is it? (besides that) And what the heck is an Ori-Coustic? Ron N
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