Re: [sdiy] Keybed distributors

[rdrake]

i vaguely remember seeing instruments w/ small, relatively light string assemblies... maybe from practice pianos that used to be used in instructional labs?  maybe aluminum, and amplified?  anyone remember something like that, and have details like manufacturers or brand names?

like others mentioned, i once had the guts from an old upright once, much fun... but too much metal for the space i have now...

bbob

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: "Ben Lincoln" <blincoln at eventualdecline.com>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 -0800 (PST) 07:32:42
>
>The innards of a piano make a really interesting
>effect "processor". Five
>or so years ago, one of the rock bands at the time
>(Linkin Park maybe?)
>recorded part of a track by laying a guitar amp on
>its back and pointing
>it up at the bottom of a piano. I remember the
>effect as being like a
>cross between a harpsichord, reverb, and chorus.
>A friend of mine just ended up with a soundboard of
>his own (they're fun
>to play directly too), and it reminded me of how
>cool they are. I wouldn't
>want to disassemble a working piano to get one, but
>if I ever have the
>chance to extract the soundboard from an otherwise
>useless piano I also
>plan on converting it for my own use.
>
>On Thu, January 17, 2008 6:56 am, anthony said:
>
>> For a while they had a piano soundboard in the
>hall just for kids to play
>> with.  Great fun noise maker. I thought of a way
>to use a soundboard as a
>> reverb system by playing around with it. I think
>this winter I just might
>> implement my system on my piano here at home
>(since it's been ages since
>> it's been tuned...).
>
>
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