Re: Piano [Things striking other things...]

I once* played a �fretless� piano� It had a smooth transparent �keyboard�**
that only depressed very slightly when you touched it and was marked (just
under the transparent surface) with a plethora of beautifully colored (and
variously defined) pitch stops. Other than the (impossible?) 'fretless'
feature, this instrument was very much a regular acoustic, mechanical
hammer-to-string piano� And what a sound it was!***

Dan

*�[had a dream where I]

**No keys - just a half inch (or thereabouts) thick see-through slab�

***I�ve tried to recreate the [dreamt of] sound of this �instrument� several
times over the years [see Blue Caro.ram/rm @:
http://members.xoom.com/Minor2nd/ for one example].

-----Original Message----- From: Gary Morrison

>This isn't strictly tuning-related, but I'm sure some of you will have some
thoughts on it.

>I got the impression that the piano is techincally classifed as a
percussion instrument. It's obviously not percussion in the sense that it's
in the same instrument family as, for example, a drum. It's a percussion
instrument because it produces sound ... well, by percussion - things
striking other things, in this case hammers striking strings.