1960s Steinway console

[Arlie D. Rauch]

>     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  

I tuned my first such about a month or so ago, and it was similar.  The
tuning pins were extremely tight.  But it sounded great when I was done.

Arlie

Arlie D. Rauch
Glendive, MT

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