fretless piano

>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!***

What do you mean?

C.

I am a little lost on this one but I'll just add that We had two Hammerstrings
Pianos played with mallets at the SeJIc and S the F hammerstrings and the
Fhammerstrings JR ranging from 4 to 48th harmonics tuned by myself and Guru
Genovese and they are defintely percussive instruments but I may be missing your
points.
Pat

Carl Lumma wrote:

> From: Carl Lumma <clumma@nni.com>
>
> >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!***
>
> What do you mean?
>
> C.
>
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I once* played a �fretless� piano

>What do you mean?

footnotes:
*�[had a dream where I]

***I�ve tried to recreate the [dreamt of] sound of this �instrument� several
times over the years