Piano electric soundboard [Fwd: Re: just guitars?]

[Phillip L Ford]

Right.  All you need is a sitka spruce panel the size of a soundboard.  You put
pickups on all the strings, amplify the output, and transmit it to your soundboard
speaker.  Now you don't have to have a soundboard in the piano.  Think of the
savings.

Phil F
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Phillip Ford
Piano Service & Restoration
1777 Yosemite Ave - 215
San Francisco, CA  94124


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:05:40  
 Greg Newell wrote:
>Greetings listees,
>    I thought I would forward this to the list. This is an answer to a
>question I posted to the site given us by Terry Farrell. Once they
>develop this item I'd love to hear how it sounds. Not sure I could ever
>afford it but I'd love to hear it.
>
>Greg
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: just guitars?
>   Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:56 +0800
>   From: Petros Guitars <petros@petrosguitars.com>
>     To: Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
>
>This would work great for a piano. We hold the patent for that as well.
>One would probably need a bigger soundboard for a really big piano sound
>and we have not developed it as of yet. What we have now is ideal for
>guitars, mandolins, violins and possibly cellos.   We use Sitka
>spruce.   Thanks for the note.
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>Bruce Petros
>
>Petros Guitars
>345 Co. Rd. CE
>Kaukauna, WI 54130
>920-766-1295
>http://www.petrosguitars.com
>From: Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
>
>     Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:56:02 -0500
>     To: info@soundboard.net
>     Subject: just guitars?
>
>
>     Dear Sirs,
>        Are these amps made for guitars only? Would you have a
>     keyboard
>     variety? Neat product!! I hope you're successful! What kind of
>     spruce do
>     you use?
>
>     --
>     Greg Newell
>     Greg's Piano Fort?
>     mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
>
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