---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment At 01:31 4/3/2005, you wrote: >Okay, Alan, I'll bite...is this for real??? What is it??? April Fool's??? > >Dave Stahl Dave, Okay, I'm not Alan, but I have a brother so named... Yes, it is very real. I've seen the beasties. Two manuals using the same stack. Somewhere I've seen a drawing where you can see more clearly how the octave (34) and the coupler (49, 50, 51, 52) work. [34 is oblique] As you can imagine, when coupled it is VERY heavy. One point not easily understood from the drawing if you haven't seen the thing in the flesh is that the rear portions of the naturals of the lower keyboard are raised (7) to allow a chromatic glissando. I hope my picture of one I saw in Edinburgh helps a little. (Alan may have seen the same one - at EUCHMI) You can see the raised portion of the naturals better against the block which replaces the top octave of the upper manual. BTW, this one also is fitted with a "harpsichord" attachment which works just like a moderator, but instead of moving a strip of felt or leather between hammer and string, it moves little metal bars. Let off is VERY large to allow this feature... Fun, no? ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 42273_13.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 48222 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/db/06/23/e0/42273_13.jpg ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Conrad Hoffsommer You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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