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The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
GarandMarine:
Happy birthday Jeph!
Near Lurker:
33?
...geez, when I signed up for this forum, then, he was younger than I am...
Loki:
...I expect he is still younger than you?
Happy Birthday Jeph!
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 16 Jun 2013, 19:47 ---An 88-string guitar? Wouldn't that be the size of a piano? Or IS it a piano?
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I win on obscure cultural references! Lehrer had a monologue about how folk music should be performed on folk instruments, and since his piano didn't qualify as such he asked his audience to pretend he was playing an 88-string gee-tahr.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 16 Jun 2013, 20:40 ---I think a harpsichord would be closer to a guitar than a piano; however, I have no idea how many strings a harpsichord would have.
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5-octaves (sometimes missing a sharp key in the bass), so 60 or 61 strings per stop; small harpsichords have just the one set of strings, but larger ones may have two or three (separately selectable by a stop mechanism), so up to 183 strings. Exceptionally, in Ireland only (strange but true), some instruments had a range of 5 octaves and a tone, so up to six more strings. Instruments with four courses of strings exist but are very rare.
Oops, where am I? Oh yes - Happy Birthday, Jeph!
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