Whats the difference in a spinet, console, studio, or upright piano?
For several hundred years the upright piano ruled. Its main advantages are the longer strings and a full-sized action. Around the time of the 2nd World War, people wanted smaller pianos. Manufacturers complied by making the strings shorter and the action smaller. There are compromises when you do this. All pianos have the same length string in the top C, around 2 ¼ inches. Theoretically in order to get the C the next octave down you have to double the length of the string. If you keep doing this, the last A in the bass will be 27 feet long! That won’t work. To solve that problem the scale designers increased the diameter of the wires a little every so often. When you want a spinet-sized piano you need to really increase the diameter. This produces an inferior sound to the upright but it looks cute. The action won’t fit in such a small case so you have to make the parts smaller or cut off the keys and drop the parts down lower and link them up again. Not the most wonderful result bu
