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    Re: Any musical instrument? —Henry Lim
   Myself being a keyboardist, I've been seriously considering making a single manual harpsichord (with the strings non-LEGO, of course). I've worked out workable mechanisms for the key action. However, it'll take a while to collect the parts for 4 (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: Any musical instrument? —Ross Crawford
     Hmmm. I imagine a piano action wouldn't be out of the question, either. The main problem I can see is with the strings - if you're looking at 4 octaves, thats 48 fairly tight strings, which is going to put a fair bit of strain on whatever base you (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
    
         Re: Any musical instrument? —Amnon Silverstein
     I think this is an understatement. I think it would be a huge challenge to build something strong enough. A piano key, however, would be a really cool project. I saw a diagram of one once, and I thought about trying to build a Lego model of a single (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
    
         Re: Any musical instrument? —Ross Crawford
     And even trickier to get a whole bunch in close proximity side-by-side 8?) Amnon Silverstein <amnon@best.com> wrote in message news:G4tr6A.2rt@lugnet.com... (...) piano (...) The (...) octaves, (...) on (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
    
         Re: Any musical instrument? —Kyle Beatty
     (Sorry to hijack the thread for a moment) Amnon, I sent you an email but it bounced. Is your website still up? (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: Any musical instrument? —Henry Lim
   I'm on the brink of stringing up my full-sized, playable LEGO harpsichord. But for fun, I made a miniature "mock-up" version (out of LEGO, of course) of what the final instrument will eventually look like: (URL) slightly bigger than Miniland scale, (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build) ! 
   
        Re: Any musical instrument? —Eric Sophie
     Hey that's great! How very cool! Wow a full size one in progress! I can't wait to see it!!!!! That's really something!!! Legomaster www.mylegomaster.com (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
   
        Re: Any musical instrument? —Tobbe Arnesson
     (...) One word: Jikes! (...) I don't even want to start thinking about the amount of pieces that would require. Hope all goes well with the stringing! /Tobbe (URL) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
   
        Re: Any musical instrument? —David Goeb
     (...) Sweet!!! Looking forward to the full size. Best DaveG (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
   
        Re: Any musical instrument? —Ralph Daigle
   (...) I will be interesting to see how you create the sounding board and the tuning pegs to hold the strings. Keep us informed, can't wait to see & hear it. Ralph (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
 

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