Bass piano?
So, a bass guitar is pretty much just like a guitar, strung to play lower notes. Can someone more musically knowledgeable than I am explain why nobody's ever made a bass piano full of really long, thick strings? I would love to see (and hear) a giant bass piano.
UPDATE: My brother-in-law informs me that Bösendorfer does, in fact, make a piano with four extra lower keys.
posted by Adam Villani @ 2/16/2009 10:55:00 PM
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er... becuase it's already got a bass register?
A guituar usually has 6 or 12 strings.
the piano already has 88.
That's bass, tenor, alto, soprano, and ultra-soprano, I guess.
Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies -- it seems that you really can't get frequencies much lower than are already being created (27.5 Hz -- 4186.01), without going infra-sonic.
it seems that you really can't get frequencies much lower than are already being created (27.5 Hz -- 4186.01), without going infra-sonic
All the more reason to do it!
Actually, I should probably ask my brother-in-law who's writing a PhD thesis on tuning.
Remember David Funderburk? He had this awesome dream once that the beastie boys were in his back yard playing a huge instrument they'd strung on a tree trunk. It was called the "space bass." That's what you need to have.
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