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Should this be moved to Honky-tonk piano? It seems to me that a tack piano is a subset of honky-tonk pianos. A honky-tonk is basically a piano that is poorly maintained, out of tune, and has old hard hammers, or a piano that has been modified to sound like that. Putting tacks in the hammers is just one (horrible) way of doing that. Also, honky-tonk, in my experience, is the WP:COMMON NAME. (I had never heard of a tack piano before finding this article.) ~ Adjwilley ( talk) 03:06, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
It seems like the mandolin rail (or mandolin attachment) should be mentioned here, since it achieves an effect similar to that of a tack piano without actually having to jam tacks into the hammers and damage the piano. Well designed mandolin rails will easily lift in and out of place on an upright piano allowing both styles of play. It's a pretty nifty piece of equipment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.180.51.132 ( talk) 00:14, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Going by what I'm reading here—that the tack piano is “an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed” on the hammers—it would seem to me that tack pianos are a sort of prepared piano designed to replicate (if not imitate somewhat) the tone of honky-tonk pianos, although I by no means have any relevant credential to state such authoritatively. If this is not the case, the principal difference to me seems to be that prepared pianos are created generally by modifying the strings, whereas tack pianos are created by modifying the hammers. Due to their conceptual similarity, however, I think that at least some mention of prepared pianos in the See Also page would be helpful.-- OzzyMuffin238 ( talk) 14:50, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
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Should this be moved to Honky-tonk piano? It seems to me that a tack piano is a subset of honky-tonk pianos. A honky-tonk is basically a piano that is poorly maintained, out of tune, and has old hard hammers, or a piano that has been modified to sound like that. Putting tacks in the hammers is just one (horrible) way of doing that. Also, honky-tonk, in my experience, is the WP:COMMON NAME. (I had never heard of a tack piano before finding this article.) ~ Adjwilley ( talk) 03:06, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
It seems like the mandolin rail (or mandolin attachment) should be mentioned here, since it achieves an effect similar to that of a tack piano without actually having to jam tacks into the hammers and damage the piano. Well designed mandolin rails will easily lift in and out of place on an upright piano allowing both styles of play. It's a pretty nifty piece of equipment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.180.51.132 ( talk) 00:14, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Going by what I'm reading here—that the tack piano is “an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed” on the hammers—it would seem to me that tack pianos are a sort of prepared piano designed to replicate (if not imitate somewhat) the tone of honky-tonk pianos, although I by no means have any relevant credential to state such authoritatively. If this is not the case, the principal difference to me seems to be that prepared pianos are created generally by modifying the strings, whereas tack pianos are created by modifying the hammers. Due to their conceptual similarity, however, I think that at least some mention of prepared pianos in the See Also page would be helpful.-- OzzyMuffin238 ( talk) 14:50, 16 September 2022 (UTC)