Rippens

[Pierre Gevaert]

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Hi Richard,

I've got a piano like you describe below.=20
The keybed is also mounted on hinges so it is possible to fold it down. =
With the keybed folded , it is only about 20 cm large. (the frame and =
the soundboard together measure only about 6 cm!!) It is also verry =
light and thus transportable.
The sound is not bad at all for such a strange and small instrument.
I'll probably sell it to a museum because like you said, the pinblock =
and all other parts are visible. The case can just be slide of and on =
the frame within a minute.


I'll send a few pictures tomorrow.

Pierre Gevaert
Belgium
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek@broadpark.no>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 12:59 AM
Subject: Rippens


> Which reminds me....
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> I ran into the strangest one of these I've ever seen a couple weeks=20
> back.  Small thing.  Rippens didnt use a cast iron plate as many of =
you=20
> know. They screwed together pieces of steel to make a harp. This one =
was=20
> no exception. What was strange was that there was no back to the =
piano.=20
> None at all. No back beams, no back framework or posts... just the=20
> <<soundboard>> with two skimpy pinblocks glued onto to it.  At least=20
> thats what it looked like.  All you could see on from the back side =
was=20
> a panel with a bass pinblock and a treble one... seperate blocks. =20
> Screws held the things in place from the front side of the <<plate>>.
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> Actually.. it was one of the better sounding Rippens I've run into =
over=20
> the years.=20
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> Cheers
> RicB
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