I was always under the impression that a console piano referred only to the design of the cabinet which mimicked the style of the console organ i.e. it had a sliding fall (keyboard cover) and extended cheeks, and in fact has nothing to do with the size of the instrument. A spinet would refer to a drop action although a spinet on this side of the Atlantic is a completely different kettle of fish. Meanwhile, I don't actually know what defines a studio piano. In my neck of the woods most of my clients are students and they tend to have their pianos in their bedrooms these days so maybe there is a case for a new category of boudoir upright. BTW have you noticed that hardly anyone seems to make up their beds these days? While you're having a whale of a time with all your puns, perhaps this should now be called a con'sole' piano and a spinet should be defined as that where the action is below the waterline......or should be! AF ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan R. Barnard" <tune4u at earthlink.net> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 6:25 PM Subject: RE: console vs. spinet > 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 > >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! >>http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > > >>-- >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.13/634 - Release Date: 1/17/2007 4:45 >>PM > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070121/98bde50a/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 21129 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070121/98bde50a/attachment.jpe
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