Friday, 6. December 2002

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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