I also noticed that they liken it to a zither in the patent... perhaps you should compare the configuration to that of a zither and possibly tune it as such?
All that aside, I would find it remarkable if any sympathetic vibration could occur as described. Put me in the non-believer category ;) Loran On Sep 12, 2005, at 1:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 9/12/2005 3:55:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > >> There's still no indication of how the tuning might be done in >> PHP. Would >> >> > > ************* > Hi > > Naturally the full patents contain more detail, but of course, > their intent > (Klenk and Krebs) was not to provide a manual there, just to patent > the > principle involved. I can take a further look however. If I recall, > it was also > intended that the owner play along with piano keys, on the same > strings! As far as > I know, none were actually made with these keys... > > allen > www.phonobooks.com > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/ > >
