Estonia grands

[Robert Goodale]

Kristinn Leifsson wrote:

> I have tuned quite a few grands of the Estonia brand.  Now this brand was
> supposedly nothing much to talk about, but since Estonia was free from the
> U.S.S.R they´ve constantly been getting better.
>
> The annoyance that I´m faced with however, is tuning-related.  When tuning
> the temperament and the lowest part of the treble they´re very comfortable.
>  However as soon as I get up to the upper middle part of the treble the
> octaves seem to "resist".  The octave is beatless but as soon as I check it
> with a seventeenth or whatever, it becomes clear that it has to go higher.
> All the symptoms told me, the first time I tuned one, that there must have
> been something terribly wrong with the temperament and the following
> octaves.
> However, I checked this thoroughly and found out it wasn´t so.  There was
> absolutely no reason for this.

I've personally never had the misfortune of tuning one of these but based on
reputation I might guess that the scaling on this piano is awful.  I can
imagine that it changes string sizes maybe three times in the entire piano.
Get out your micrometer and take a looksee.  I bet that's the problem.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV