console vs. spinet

[Alan R. Barnard]

Generally, if the music rack sticks up only a max of 3 to 4 inches over the piano top, it can be called a console. If the whole rack looks like a WWII radar antenna sitting on the piano, it's a spinet. The height of the piano (therefore, maybe, string length) is the defining characteristic. Legs are irrelephant to this disgustion.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO
Joshua 24:15



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Karl kaputt" <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 01/20/2007 2:35:34 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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