I think the Steinway C was famous for this design as well. --Cy-- Cy Shuster, RPT Albuquerque, NM www.shusterpiano.com www.facebook.com/shusterpiano On Nov 16, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Greg Granoff wrote: > Alan, > Steinway did this for a while in the ‘20s to the treble sections of > concert grands (at least the only examples I’ve ever seen were > concert grands). Best I’ve been able to learn is that the hope was > for a more penetrating, or perhaps projective tone, though the only > thing I ever experienced is a feeling of being extremely annoyed > while tuning one of them. Maybe the theory is that if you can > prevent the poor tooner from making “dead” unisons, the piano will > sound more lively(?) > > Greg Granoff > Humboldt State Univ. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101116/50af4b22/attachment.htm>
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