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

Phillip L Ford fordpiano@lycos.com
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:31:56 0000


Greg,
Yes I knew.  Thought it might be a chance for a (admittedly small) laugh though.

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


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:57:36  
 Greg Newell wrote:
>Phil,
>    Thanks for the good chuckle! Of course you know that I was talking about a
>keyboard, right?
>
>Phillip L Ford wrote:
>
>> 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
>> ---
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>--
>Greg Newell
>mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
>
>
>




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