Chris Finger is a Sauter dealer, might have been a Sauter. Andrew At 05:44 PM 12/3/2007, you wrote: >Cool! > >Chris Fingers (Denver Co) has a piano that is straight strung (of >course) and I'm not absolutely sure but it seemed to be 31 note >division of the octave. I think it had 96 keys too. He had the music >for it on the piano to try. It seems it was a special Grotrian. >Maybe Chris H. remembers. That is the most bizarre "piano" thing >I've ever played. > >Jim Busby > > >---------- >From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf >Of Fred Sturm >Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:34 PM >To: College and University Technicians >Subject: Re: [CAUT] 1/4 tone piano conversion > > >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>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>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>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 ><mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>fssturm at unm.edu > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20071203/8e497229/attachment.html
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