<font size=2 face="sans-serif">how about one of these: I saw this by Pike
Place Market in Seattle over spring break.</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">04/23/2011 01:17 PM</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I saw one of those in the recent past. Can't
exactly remember whether I tuned it or not. It is everything you
say. And I can't believe that it could serve the purpose for which
it was supposedly designed. At best it would have to be tuned at
every new location.<br>
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Arlie Rauch<br>
Glendive, MT<br>
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> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:27:14 -0700<br>
> From: "Rob & Helen Goodale" <rrg@unlv.nevada.edu><br>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
> Subject: [pianotech] Portable gig piano<br>
> Message-ID: <B843C55ED50D402BA77186B46E55644B@GoodalePC><br>
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> ?I tuned something very unexpected today. A "Hepinstall
Roadmaster" 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.<br>
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> The following links will take you to some pictures of this animal.<br>
> </font></tt><a href=http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html><tt><font size=2>http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>
> </font></tt><a href="http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91"><tt><font size=2>http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>
> </font></tt><a href="http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this"><tt><font size=2>http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>
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> Rob Goodale, RPT<br>
> Las Vegas, NV<br>
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