Voicing of high bass on Steinway L

Don pianotuna at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 11 22:37:55 MST 2006


Hi Mark,

Do you have a camera Mark? A photo would have been clearer than words I think.

At 10:30 PM 3/11/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, in any case, the unwound parts are roughly the same,
>but the wound parts are not, for the same string, in this
>particular piano.  I.e. the windings are roughly 8-10mm longer
>on the lower string of each bichord.
>
>-Mark
>
> >Hi Don,
> >That is not what I was referring to. If the windings are reasonably the
> >same, and the hammer is not too grossely angled, there should not be an
> >issue with a small difference in bridge to wrap length of the coer >wire.
> >Joe Goss RPT
> >Mother Goose Tools
> >imatunr at srvinet.com
> >www.mothergoosetools.com
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Don" <pianotuna at yahoo.com>
> >To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 5:25 PM
> >Subject: Re: Voicing of high bass on Steinway L
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hi Mark and Joe,
> >>
> >> I believe the inharmonicity goes up by the cube of the length of the
> >> unwound string.
> >
> > In real life as one climbs the partial ladders each one will diverge
> > farther and farther apart. The solution is to try to tune the loudest
> > coincident partial beat free. This will be the best compromise in a bad
> >
>...
> >> Regards,
> >> Don Rose

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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