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!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JWyatt1492@aol.com">JWyatt1492@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div>Hello Rob.</div> <div> </div> <div> This piano is a " Melodigrand " 64 note build by the</div> <div>Winter Co. at 2718 Pershing Ave, in Memphis Tenn. </div> <div>Down thru time they named it many things. One was</div> <div>" Melodipro".</div> <div> </div> <div> It has19 bass wraped wires all single 6 wraped </div> <div>bi-cords in center section the rest slick bi-cords. </div> <div> </div> <div> Before there was a " Hepinstal l" we would install three </div> <div>Bass fiddle contact mikes for the traveling bands and </div> <div>a-way they would go. They would plug into a Bass Amp.</div> <div> </div> <div> It was the best "64" on the market. Then or now. </div> <div>A poor second is the " Pinafore " by Gulbransen. </div> <div> </div> <div>Hope this helps,</div> <div>Jack Wyatt</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>In a message dated 4/22/2011 11:27:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:rrg@unlv.nevada.edu" target="_blank">rrg@unlv.nevada.edu</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="border-left:blue 2px solid;padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px"><font style="background-color:transparent" color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="2"><font face="Calibri"> <div><font face="Calibri">I tuned something very unexpected today. A "Hepinstall Roadmas</font></div></font></font></blockquote></font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <blockquote style="border-left:blue 2px solid;padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px"> <div><font style="background-color:transparent" color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="2"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri">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.</font></font></font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">The following links will take you to some pictures of this animal.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"><a title="http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html" href="http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html" target="_blank">http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html</a></font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"><a title="http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91" href="http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91" target="_blank">http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91</a></font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"><a title="http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this" href="http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this" target="_blank">http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this</a></font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">Rob Goodale, RPT</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">Las Vegas, NV</font></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><br>