> P.S. Isn't Starck the little thingee that had holes drilled horizontally > through the bass bridge? > My 1900 Bechstein has horizontal holes drilled through the bass bridge. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: Re: Puzzler??? > 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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