88 Piano Keys Cache #3 Traditional Cache
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Gas Saver: This cache is location in a rest area in the north bound lane of Interstate 95, another cache GCR96M, is also located here.
This cache currently a film canister. Bring your own Pen or Pencil.
We have hidden four Piano Keys Caches throughout Maine with individual keys inside. (GC14912, GC1491H, GC14929)These individual keys are available for you to pick up and spread the music as your own cache.
Each Key comes with a 4 page log sheet and is in a film canister with the Key Number and note on the outside of the container.
When you pick up your Key, Either log a note online or email me, which one you have taken. This will help me keep track of the inventory. Please hide all the Keys in Maine. Try to keep the Hide under a three and the terrain under a two.
You will want to keep track of all the keys you visit, once they are put out, because anyone that visits more than 44 keys can have their name listed on this cache page. You can count your own key as one of the forty-four, you do not need to log a smiley on your own. There will be a prize for the first to find all 88 keys.
Piano History Part 3
A notable development was overstringing, developed by Henri Pape in 1828 and patented by Steinway in 1859 which placed the longer bass strings overtop of the shorter treble strings, enabling longer strings in a shorter cabinet, and centering the bass strings over the soundboard for better tonal response.
Mangeot created a sensation in Paris in 1878 with a two-manual piano. Each hand had its own keyboard, but the keys for the left hand were reversed, making the furthest note to the left the highest pitched. Pianists could play scales and arpeggio passages with the same fingering but with the hands moving in opposite directions. In 1878 Percival patented a piano with two keyboards placed back-to-back vertically, 16 inches wide. The compass was split between the hands. Paul Janko patented Vincent's idea for a keyboard with six rows of keys in 1882.
In 1895 Pleyel patented a piano with a keyboard at each end, apparently similar to that by Persson in 1850.
From about 1959, the most common covering for both white and black keys has been acrylic plastic. The keys made by Lindner for about ten years from 1961 were of plastic and hollow and tended to break.
GET OUT THERE AND HELP SPREAD BEAUTIFUL MUSIC THROUGHOUT MAINE!!!!!!!!!!
Even if there are no piano keys/notes in the cache, you can still visit this cache and log it as a find.
Congrats to EMSDanel on FTF!!
Additional Hints
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