This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Richard Brekne=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: June 08, 2003 9:07 AM Subject: Re: Rippen opinions, please! =20 Delwin D Fandrich wrote:=20 Andre has pretty well covered it. One question, though--weren't the = Rippen=20 grands also flat-strung?=20 =20 Do you mean straight strung ? grin.. sorry ... couldnt help myself. = Every time I see that "flat strung" term... I get this vision of some = guy out there banging away at the string matial to flatten it before = stringing the instrument.=20 Cheers=20 RIcB=20 =20 No. I don't mean straight strung. The term straight strung as applied to = the piano having all of its string laid out in a more-or-less single = plane has always bothered me. It implies that the strings are straight. = But straight relative to what? Of course the strings are straight. = Strings under tension are, by their nature, straight. So that means all = pianos are straight strung. We must look further to figure out just what = the straight in straight strung refers to. Does straight strung mean = that the strings are perpendicular to the strike line? A bit of a = stretch on the word, that. And besides, very few flat strung pianos have = many of their strings oriented perpendicular to the strikeline--in some = there are none at all--so the term straight strung would have to leave = out all those whose strings deviate from that = perpendicular-to-strikeline orientation. Or does the term straight = strung mean that the strings are all parallel to each other? Again, few = flat strung pianos have many of their strings laid parallel to each = other--some have none at all. So, the term straight strung would have to = leave out most flat strung pianos on that basis alone.=20 On the other hand, the term flat strung clearly differentiates the = string dispersement from its alternate, the overstrung string = dispersion. It makes reference to the fact that the strings are all in a = single, flat plane rather than sending some of the strings up and over = some of the other strings.=20 Or should we just use non-overstrung piano having all strings in a = single, more-or-less-flat plane. Seems a bit cumbersome. I'll stick with = flat strung.=20 Regards,=20 Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/64/50/f1/0b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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