Hey y'all; I am disappointed in y'all at missing the most obvious and easily explainable answer to the "Ori-coustic" question! The makers of the 'Starck' spinet could not come up with a marketing "feature" that was outstanding or beneficial for their instrument, thus their salemen had nothing to hang their line of gab on. In order to vitiate this problem the marketing department came up with "Ori-coustic". With the root of "Ori" being hole/mouth and the root of "coustic" being noise/sound the answer here is fairly obvious...isn't it? "Ori-coustic" is simply the line of sales noise created verbally for these Starck spinets..........course it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. :-) Jim Bryant (FL) P.S. Isn't Starck the little thingee that had holes drilled horizontally through the bass bridge?
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