Una corda in uprights

[Tony Caught]

Have never seen one but the piano was a Tokai. They sold quite a few in
Sydney. Tried to find out more information about the system myself but never
got an answer from Japan.

Tony Caught
Australia
caute@bigpond.com.au


>
> > My question still stands: Does anybody make uprights, nowadays, with una
> > corda?
> >
> >
> >  Calin Tantareanu
> >
>
>
> I taught a couple of classes in Sydney, Australia a couple of years back.
> There was an exhibitor there showing a Japanese-built vertical piano
> featuring a shifting una corda action. I don't remember the brand name or
> the builder. In this piano the damper mechanism was split off and was
> mounted to the case sides. Not the way I'd have done it but it did seem to
> work reasonably well and shouldn't have added all that much to the cost of
> the piano. The keyset and stack shifted per normal grand piano practice.
>
> I do not know if the piano is still available. Perhaps some of our
> Australian colleagues could comment?
>
> Del