Susan Kline wrote: _____ Thinking about the fourth string as I tuned them over and over, it seems to me that Bluethner didn't add it to get more volume. Rather, if you listen to the first three without the fourth, the timbre sort of goes white, like when really clear strings are tuned EXACTLY to each other? They seem to cancel out some of each other's sound? And then you add the fourth, and the sort of messy front termination adds a little bit of wildness to it all, so it sings. --------------------------------- Very insightful, this . . . . When nicely tuned the effect seems to give una-corda sweetness with decreased attack, while also providing the sustain effect of very slightly mis-tuned unisons, as one might do to improve sustain. I like the system, but it's too expensive for most pianos, and is perhaps underappreciated by musicians because it is too dependent on the technician to tune it nicely. Don Mannino -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090724/2160138b/attachment.htm>
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