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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
it's very similar, ron, but the lid didn't have that reinforcement under it. it was clear lexan all the way through. i've gotta go through my pics from that trip and digitize some of them. things are stalled out while hubster decides if he wants to get a plain scanner or one of those combo dealies. i will never buy hp again! (scanner died like the month after the warranty ran out.)
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Here's another one of those upright grands 
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And the weekend bonus is:  Behold! The Borgato double piano. Perfect for organists... The lower piano only has bass strings that work from the pedals.
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wow again.. that would require a percussive pedalling techinque I guess. I wonder how low the bass goes. | |||
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It looks to have the same lower range. (3 bass octaves, going down to A=27.5 Hz.) Also, since feet are a "little" heavier and stronger than fingers, I don't think any additional impact would be needed. Check it out here: http://www.borgato.it/main_800_uk.htm
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I can hardly manage the 3 pedals on my piano... I'd love to try it tho. | |||
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Rontuner, I think the Borgato double piano needs to come with at least a PG-13 rating... maybe PG-17, that thing's makin' me blush!! 
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Laura and I want someone to start making this piano again!! (This is a Pleyel)    | |||
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Elena: What's the advantage of a piano like that vs. two sistered grands? Other than how freakin cool the one-unit is.
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I feel obligated to jump in (sorry it's 7 pages late though!) I have a very special offering... something still in the conceptual stages, and not yet in production. But how about a titanium piano?  And for Pique...  | |||
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Chris, I would imagine it would be easier to balance sound and make both pianos equal as they are both at the same distance from the lid. Two separate pianos, Piano II tends to sound different to Piano I because it has no lid and is not perfectly picked up by the lid of the first piano. Never played one of these (it seems there are 6 in the world), it may sound awful but I love the concept! Hey KB, are those Grotrimans joined at the hip? How in the world is the lid being held up? Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com | |||
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 It's quite a monstrous device keeping that lid up. I couldn't stop looking at it at NAMM. | |||
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Conjoined pianos...even the finest surgeons might have trouble separating those two -- joined at the tail!  Hey, Elena! Welcome! It was so great to see and hear you and Laura! Glad your upstate concert went well (in spite of those hammers)and you're getting a well-deserved break! Joe
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KB, that looks like the piano version of teenage braces!! I would hate to see the lifting mechanism fail... Joe, thanks for the welcome. I have been meaning to post here for a while but could never find enough time to dip my feet in. I posted my impressions of my Brooklyn stay and some extra pics over in the "What are you listening..." thread in Off Key. When do you rehearse with Heather? I read you met her. She is an astonishing musician, isn't she? I'm bummed I won't be hearing you two. Please try and get a recording! Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com | |||
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana |
hi, elena! good to see you here. kb, you beat me to the punch. i saw that grotrian when i was in braunschweig in april, but i didn't have a photo.
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