On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote: > He explained it to me as an upright that had been converted. Quite > possibly it was two pianos as described. I'll have to pin him down > on more details. My first reaction was, you can't do that with this > type of piano, you'll have to buy a Sauter Microtonal piano (problem > is it does 1/16" tone) > http://www.sauter-pianos.de/english/pianos/microtone.html. > He was insistent on the possibility and then I explained how bass > strings would break and how the treble would go dead. Not having > much experience here I said I would inquire into the possibility of > re-scaling the piano to do the job. I think I have the answer > though. :-) Much easier to do two especially when playing...imagine > one octave every 24 keys. He could... > > Andrew Anderson The link from Sauter includes the following quote: "Quarter tone instruments have already been around for a long time." I was curious, so I Googled quarter tone piano. A couple links: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738789,00.html (Time Magazine 1930 article, two keyboard instrument made by Baldwin) http://www.jstor.org/view/00274631/ap020048/02a00050/0 (Musical Quarterly 1926 article, three keyboard instrument made by German firm Forster) That's a much time as I had (between tunings - mental health break), but there were probably a few more specific pianos and designs. Along with sites talking about two pianos tuned 1/4 tone apart and references to electronics. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20071203/4ac9d6b0/attachment.html
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