Terry wrote: >Seems to me then that there SHOULD be a market for home pianos that have a >most two strings per note. Advantages would be better tuning stability >(unisons) and lower cost and weight. .... >But waddaya think about such an idea? Well nothing is new under the sun. Bichord grand pianos were marketed by French manufacturers (e.g. Boisselot, Pleyel etc.) mid-19th century. Reasoning presumably what Terry suggests. From the ones I've come across I believe the bichord was musically acceptable for domestic use and with some practical and economic benefits...but the idea was one of those countless innovations that had a fling and peetered out. Stephen -- Dr Stephen Birkett Associate Professor Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 E3 Room 3158 tel: 519-888-4567 Ext. 3792 fax: 519-746-4791 PianoTech Lab Room E3-3160 Ext. 7115 mailto: sbirkett[at]real.uwaterloo.ca http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett
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