<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Non-overstrung pianos (was Re: Rippen opinions, please</title></head><body> <div>At 8:41 PM +0200 6/8/03, Richard Brekne wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Delwin D Fandrich wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Or should we just use<i><b> non-overstrung piano having all strings in a single, more-or-less-flat plane</b></i>. Seems a bit cumbersome. I'll stick with<i><b> flat strung</b></i>.</font><br> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000000">I propose a completely different term... one that I think clearly exhasperates upon us its reasonablness.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000000"><i><b>Fanned Strung</b></i></font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Del, Richard,</div> <div><br></div> <div>If it were a matter of establishing terminology to supposedly eliminate confusion in the piano industry, non-overstrung would simply be the best description, no ifs and or buts. It embraces all of the following:</div> <div><br></div> <div>Straight strung</div> <div>Flat strung</div> <div>Fanned strung</div> <div><br></div> <div>And other than comprising more syllables and a hyphen, it seems hardly less inconvenient to use.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Keith McGavern</div> <div><br></div> <div>(Straight strung works for me until Council decides otherwise  :-)</div> </body> </html>