1960s Steinway console

[Jon Page]

At 09:13 PM 3/19/99 -0600, you wrote: 
>
> 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
>  


Aren't those 40" verticals fun?
I turned those over to the ETD users long ago.

On a related note, I have a Mason and Hamlin console
which is a pure pleasure to tune.

Night and Day,