100 year old piano, or close to it

[David Nereson]

David Andersen wrote:

>  . . . . . . I'm starting to understand that in some pop music the 
> artist or producer WANTS the piano to sound kind of like a 12-string 
> guitar pad, more earthy or vulnerable or something---
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>David Andersen
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    Oh sure, and that I can understand.  I think the British blueser 
John Mayall had at least a couple tunes where he had a piano specially 
de-tuned for a sort of "jnagle piano" effect.  And I know for sure I 
could find among my twenty-something friends, who play in the 
"industrial noise" and "ambient" genres of contemporary rock (it's not 
rock 'n' roll a la Chuck Berry or even the Sex Pistols), someone who 
would love the sound of a piano that has one or two strings per unison 
in tune to E.T., and another unison string maybe a half-step flat, or an 
augmented 4th, or some other "wack" or "cool"-sounding interval, 
depending on the effect desired.  They have me save the "harps" (strung 
backs) of pianos not worth rebuilding for them to use as percussion 
instruments, tuning be damned. 
    --David Nereson, RPT