<html> <body> Alan, At 07:31 PM 1/20/2007, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> 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. </blockquote> As far as I know, the console is always a little bit taller than the spinet. And doesn't have a drop action! <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> 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. </blockquote> Here, a studio piano is usually about 45" tall, as in the Baldwin Hamilton. <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> 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?</blockquote> You mean you do? Or do you have a wife to do it for you!? :-D <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">  While you're having a whale of a time with all your puns, perhaps this should now be called a con'sole' piano   <img src="cid:7.1.0.9.2.20070120194126.03584128@houston.rr.com.1" width=400 height=300 alt="[]">   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" <<a href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">tune4u@earthlink.net</a>> To: <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>> 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 > > > > ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- > From: "Karl kaputt" <<a href="mailto:karlkaputt@hotmail.com">karlkaputt@hotmail.com</a> > > To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> > 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 > >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! >><a href="http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/" eudora="autourl"> http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/</a> > > > >>-- >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.13/634 - Release Date: 1/17/2007 4:45 >>PM > > </blockquote></body> </html>