---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01C59746.9BFDE5E0 Terry, Ron O, said the same thing in his reply. I did not reply as Ron O had already supplied you with the correct information. With a bit of thinking and observation, you should be able to work out that with the bridge of the 'forth' string half way between the main bridge and the capo bar, it would have to be of a higher pitch. When the bridges are the same for both the tri-cord and the forth string, then the pitch is the same. When tuned correctly, it does bring out a singing quality of the piano. Kerry Cooper Kerry Cooper Australasian Registered Piano Technician (ARPT) Brisbane Piano Centre (07)3809-0652 0412-033-379 brispiano@optushome.com.au _____ From: Farrell [mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 4:28 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Bluthner Tuning I had someone reply to me privately on this subject. He suggested something that no one else had mentioned. "...there are two sections with the extra string. in the lower section you tune the fourth string an octave higher than the notes to which they correspond and in the upper section you tune the extra strings in unison to the strings below." This information reportedly came from a Bluthner dealer. I'd sure hate to be wrong and start breaking strings. Anyone else ever hear of this? Is there any possibility that there were different scales that were tuned differently? Terry Farrell I just booked a first-time tuning for a Bluthner grand (first time for me to tune it). It is said to be about 55 years old. Is this piano likely to have the 4th string aliquot system up in the high treble? If so, is there any special tuning techniques for it? I've never tuned one of these. Just pluck it and tune it beatless with the other three strings of each note? Terry Farrell ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01C59746.9BFDE5E0 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/65/d7/f6/0e/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01C59746.9BFDE5E0-- ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.8/61 - Release Date: 1/08/2005 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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