[CAUT] mystery solved

[David Ilvedson]

I noticed today on a Steinway B and a Yamaha C5 that the duplex is tuned about and octave above the pitch.   
So the shorter bear bars will change that relationship...right?   The design was they were supposed to be an octave higher?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 12/15/2007 9:37:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] mystery solved



>> I've made such replacements both as one-piece-per-section, and as six 
>> separate pieces more or less per the original (and similar to S&S and 
>> many other modern pianos).  Both seem to work equally well.  Fewer 
>> pieces are easier to make and install; but to my eye the six pieces look 
>> a little nicer.

>Not to me. Given sanction to make changes, the tuned front 
>duplex goes. I'm not a fan of arbitrary extraneous noises 
>generated by stylish counter bearing bar placement, which is a 
>real by product of tuned front duplexes. I like the way the 
>look of the continuous bar sounds.
>Ron N