console vs. spinet

[Pianoman]

Consoles have a direct blow action and generally 40" or so high and spinets 
have drop actions and around 36 or 37" high.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl kaputt" <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:35 AM
Subject: console vs. spinet


> what is a console and what is a spinet? Is the difference just the form of 
> the corpus? When I hear console I figure out a small piano. Spinet has 2 
> "front legs". Is this correct?
>
> Gregor
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