1960s Steinway console

[John M. Formsma]

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Greetings, List.

Today I tuned a first for me--a 1960s Steinway console. What seemed odd was
that from G5 to the top of the piano, the majority of the strings (middle
ones, at least) had false beats. That, or else there was some other noise
that was coming from somewhere. The beats ranged from about 1 per second to
around 8 per second. At first I thought it might have been that my strip
mute was not muting the outer strings properly, but I tried with the strip
mute and two rubber mutes--same beats. When I tuned the other strings, it
sounded better, but was still somewhat noticeable in that the unisons were
not as "clean" as in, say, a Yamaha of the same size.

Since this was my first, are all Steinway consoles like this? If you have
any experience with Steinway consoles, I'd really be interested in hearing
it.

Thanks,

John Formsma


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