Oooooo... you shoulda taken a picture. This woulda been a fun one to see. RicB Ron Nossaman 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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