If y'all haven't been to Seattle....the Pike Place Market is a MUST SEE.  It's an experience.....also, my great grandfather was the architect for some of the buildings there nearly 100 years ago.  He also designed the Montlake bridge towers, the original UW hospital, and the Sorrento Hotel, among many other places around Seattle.  That's why my son's name is Harlan Thomas Williams.  He was Harlan Thomas.  Strange that he was born in Des Moines, went to the NW, I was born in the NW and now in the mid-west.  Go figgur. Paul <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td>From: <td>Paul T Williams <pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu> <tr valign=top> <td>To: <td>pianotech@ptg.org <tr valign=top> <td>Date: <td>04/23/2011 01:30 PM <tr valign=top> <td>Subject: <td>Re: [pianotech] Portable gig piano</table> <hr noshade> how about one of these: I saw this by Pike Place Market in Seattle over spring break. Paul <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=19%>From: <td width=80%>Arlie Rauch <adarpub@midrivers.com> <tr valign=top> <td>To: <td>pianotech@ptg.org <tr valign=top> <td>Date: <td>04/23/2011 01:17 PM <tr valign=top> <td>Subject: <td>Re: [pianotech] Portable gig piano</table> <hr noshade> <tt> 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. Arlie Rauch Glendive, MT > Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:27:14 -0700 > From: "Rob & Helen Goodale" <rrg@unlv.nevada.edu> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Subject: [pianotech] Portable gig piano > Message-ID: <B843C55ED50D402BA77186B46E55644B@GoodalePC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > ?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. > > The following links will take you to some pictures of this animal. > </tt><a href=http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html><tt>http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/squeezytunes/2006/09/helpinstall_pia.html</tt></a><tt> > </tt><a href="http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91"><tt>http://www.vintagekeysandpercussion.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=91</tt></a><tt> > </tt><a href="http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this"><tt>http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1443918-What-kind-of-keyboard-is-this</tt></a><tt> > > > Rob Goodale, RPT > Las Vegas, NV</tt> [attachment "DSC01966.jpg" deleted by Paul T Williams/Music/UNL/UNEBR]