[pianotech] Portable gig piano

[paul bruesch]

I've tuned this little Marco Polo 64-note for a few years now. Not to dress
it up too much, but I've certainly seen worse 88-note PSO's, and even I can
tune it in under an hour!

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, <JWyatt1492 at aol.com> wrote:

>  Hello Rob.
>
>     This piano is a  " Melodigrand " 64 note build by the
> Winter Co.  at 2718  Pershing Ave, in Memphis Tenn.
> Down thru time they  named it many things. One was
> "  Melodipro".
>
>      It has19 bass wraped wires all single  6 wraped
> bi-cords in center section  the rest slick bi-cords.
>      Before there was a " Hepinstal l" we would install three
> Bass fiddle  contact mikes for  the  traveling  bands and
> a-way they would go. They would plug into a Bass Amp.
>
>       It was the best "64" on the market. Then or now.
> A poor second is the " Pinafore " by Gulbransen.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jack Wyatt
>
>
>
> In a message dated 4/22/2011 11:27:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> rrg at unlv.nevada.edu writes:
>
> I tuned something very unexpected today.  A "Hepinstall Roadmas
>
>
>
>
> ter" portable piano.  I had never seen one of these things before although
> I heard rumors of such an animal.  It is literally an acoustic piano for
> road gigs that folds up into it's own case.  Awkward to say the least,
> terrible to say the most.  With 5-1/2 octaves it has a spinet action with a
> very bizarre arrangement for the keyboard to fold up.  There are only single
> strings in the bass and two in the treble.  The scaling was horrible, there
> was no way to get a clean temperament out of it.  Every string had it's own
> wild false beat.  This was an "emergency" call for a band that was playing
> at a local club.  I don't think it sounded much better when I left but at
> least it was at 440.  The scary part of this is that apparently the company
> also made a fold-up portable grand too.
>
> The following links will take you to some pictures of this animal.
> http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html
>
> http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91
>
> http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this
>
>
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV
>
>
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