treble fish on steroids

[Fenton Murray]

---- David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> wrote:
| > Hmmm, so, what do you call 1) a capo-d'astro (or capo
| d'asto) bar, 2)
| > an agraffe, 3) a wippen, etc etc?
|
| Exactly!  If you trace any of these terms to their original
| language, they are descriptive of their function, not some
| silly relationship to what it looks like.
|
| Frank Emerson

And the lyre? Who's a liar?
Fenton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <fandrich at pianobuilders.com>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: treble fish on steroids


> Well, I think the etymology of Capo d'Astro is a little obscure -- more of 
> a
> glorified marketing term than anything really descriptive of function --  
> but I
> take responsibility for the word "fish" being used to describe that 
> particular
> type of treble soundboard shaping device.
>
> When I started using them -- and teaching others how to use them -- nobody 
> was
> calling them anything. They had not been used -- and rarely seen -- for 
> the best
> part of a century. The word "fish" became popular around the shop based on 
> their
> shape, obviously not their function. Eventually one of our workers put a 
> mouth,
> eyes, gills and even a fin or two on one and hung it on the wall. It 
> stuck. (The
> name, not the fish.) So be it.
>
> Del
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org
> | [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of pianoguru at cox.net
> | Sent: April 15, 2008 8:08 AM
> | To: Pianotech List
> | Cc: David Boyce
> | Subject: Re: treble fish on steroids
> |
> | ---- David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> wrote:
> | > Hmmm, so, what do you call 1) a capo-d'astro (or capo
> | d'asto) bar, 2)
> | > an agraffe, 3) a wippen, etc etc?
> |
> | Exactly!  If you trace any of these terms to their original
> | language, they are descriptive of their function, not some
> | silly relationship to what it looks like.
> |
> | Frank Emerson
> |
>
>
>
>