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Author Message cozmik_cowboy Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1626 Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Monday, November 18, 2013 - 9:29 pm:    So, Leonardo da Vinci designed a keyboard that bowed strings, but never built it; now, after 500 years, a guy has built it from Leo's plans and plays it. Enjoy! Peter sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 3103 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Monday, November 18, 2013 - 9:55 pm:    ___ Das ist kool !!!!!!! http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/leonardo-da-vincis-wacky-piano-is-heard-for-the-first-time-after-500-years-20131118-2xpqs.html keith_h Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 1927 Registered: 2-2005 Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 7:29 am:    The sound reminds me a lot of the old melodeon organ I own. The attack is almost identical. The notes themselves are very close to the reeds in an old pump organ which are a bit fuller than the reeds in a melodeon. Keith peoplechipper Advanced Member Username: peoplechipper Post Number: 376 Registered: 2-2009 Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 11:36 pm:    WOW. that could be reinforcement to any string section...he needs to produce them NOW; any string quartet could add one and sound like eight!...Leonardo is my hero but he even now nudges the bar...wow..