At 06:26 AM 2/12/2007 -0500, you wrote: >Annie Grieshop wrote: >>But I'd swear I've worked on a number of Acrosonics that weren't >>spinets. Last week, for example: an Acrosonic console built in >>the late '80s. I've worked on several that were quite a bit older >>(and I'm sure of that because they hadn't been tuned in decades by >>the time I saw them). Am I still in the wrong era (universe?) or >>are Iowegian pianos weird? > >There are some Acros that are consoles..and your timetable of the >late 80's seems correct. > >-Phil Bondi(Fl) As I recall, the real Acrosonics of that era (I was doing tunings for a large Philly Baldwin dealer '79-81) had finished wood inside so you could see the multilaminate block. The not-so-real had the felt covered blocks. Seems to me I peeled back a corner or two of felt and saw the old 5? ply block. ...or I could have been imagining/mis-remembering the whole thing... YMMV Conrad Hoffsommer There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them. -Casey Stengel
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