Starkers

[Greg Newell]

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Why? So you can write or call this person and ask him/her, "what the hell 
were you thinking?" :-)
O.K., I gotta ask. This being a "Supersonic Conso-Grand", can you hear it?

Greg



At 04:56 PM 3/17/2003, you wrote:


>I tuned a dandy this morning - a P. A. Stark Supersonic Conso-Grand. My 
>first, nearly as I can recall. It's almost exactly 1 meter tall, and has 
>an A-0 speaking length of somewhere around 1600mm! The bass bridge is 
>placed diagonally in the extreme lower right corner, as far as it could 
>possibly be gotten from the upper left. bass string angle is so extreme 
>that the hammers are scarfed off at the corners like a square "grand" so 
>they will be narrow enough at the strike point to not hit neighboring 
>unisons. Monochord dampers are as narrow as can be, but still hang up on 
>one another. It has a 32 note bass, with 15 monochords, 12 copper wrapped 
>bichords, 3 aluminum wrapped bichords, and 2 plain bichords. Two more 
>plain bichords in the tenor, and the rest the usual plain trichords to 
>fill out. The scale, says the plate, is by "Wolfe of Wichita". Anyone know 
>anything about this piano, and more specifically, Wolfe of Wichita?
>Ron N
>
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Greg Newell
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net 

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