Hi, today I came to tune a piano which I thought I'd not see again. It is a modern Thurmer upright (about 120 cm) it is unique in its design in that in the last octave the hammer shank length increases one by one so the top A is about 1 1/2" higher than the rest of the hammer line. To do this the last octave's strings are splayed like a fan, as well as this stings in the treble break (which normally slant to the right) on this piano's design slant to the left. There are aggrafes throughout with the line in the treble sloping down and then up in line with the last octave. The design I can live with, but it has horible false beats in the last copuple of octaves and wasn't nice to tune. That I had last tuned it in 1985 I the then owner was going overseas but had then sold it, to todays customer. ho hum. Brian Lawson ____________________________ Lawsonic Pianoforte Services PO Box 751097 Garden View Johannesburg 2047 South Africa Voice Mail +27 (0)88 127 6584 http://www.bigfoot.com/~lawsonic ICQ: 28573941 eFax: +1 978 926 5675
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