console vs. spinet

[alan forsyth]

I was always under the impression that a console piano referred only to the design of the cabinet which mimicked the style of the console organ i.e. it had a sliding fall (keyboard cover) and extended cheeks, and in fact has nothing to do with the size of the instrument. A spinet would refer to a drop action although a spinet on this side of the Atlantic is a completely different kettle of fish. Meanwhile, I don't actually know what defines a studio piano. In my neck of the woods most of my clients are students and they tend to have their pianos in their bedrooms these days so maybe there is a case for a new category of boudoir upright. BTW have you noticed that hardly anyone seems to make up their beds these days?

While you're having a whale of a time with all your puns, perhaps this should now be called a con'sole' piano



and a spinet should be defined as that where the action is below the waterline......or should be!

AF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan R. Barnard" <tune4u at earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 6:25 PM
Subject: RE: console vs. spinet


> Generally, if the music rack sticks up only a max of 3 to 4 inches over the piano top, it can be called a console. If the whole rack looks like a WWII radar antenna sitting on the piano, it's a spinet. The height of the piano (therefore, maybe, string length) is the defining characteristic. Legs are irrelephant to this disgustion.
> 
> Alan Barnard
> Salem, MO
> Joshua 24:15
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> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "Karl kaputt" <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Received: 01/20/2007 2:35:34 AM
> Subject: console vs. spinet
> 
> 
>>what is a console and what is a spinet? Is the difference just the form of 
>>the corpus? When I hear console I figure out a small piano. Spinet has 2 
>>"front legs". Is this correct?
> 
>>Gregor
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