Topic: MUSIK - on December 6, 2002 at 11:31:39 AM CET
Self-Tuning Piano Set to Make Sweet Music
An inventor has developed a piano that can tune itself in 40 seconds and which will hit the market next year. Conventionally, pianos are tuned by manually adjusting the tension of the strings struck when a piano key is pressed. But Don Gilmore's invention warms the strings using an electric current to reduce an excess of tension deliberately built in when the piano leaves the factory.
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