Baldwin Monarch Micro-Grand

[Farrell]

> And.... I'm curious... how can you hear false beats at that range and not 
> hear regular beat rates ?

Not every string is dead. Varies quite a bit. So you get a nice secure sense 
of falseness from those few that ring on for a second or two.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> Boy I tell you what... you guys must get some absolutely trashed out 
> instruments over there what with all the stories I hear.  In 35 years of 
> working on pianos I have never ever ever never ever run into a piano where 
> you could not hear this kind of beat rate at the killer octave.  At A6... 
> typical killer octave note I'd say... 8 cents is roughly 8 beats per 
> second.  Really.... I cant say I've ever heard a killer octave note that 
> didnt sustain at least for 5-6 seconds. Ok... maybe 4 seconds if you count 
> C7 as killer octave range.
>
> And.... I'm curious... how can you hear false beats at that range and not 
> hear regular beat rates ?
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
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>
>    terry at farrellpiano.com
>     BTW - Don't you just love sustain-shortened killer octave areas? I
>    was doing
>    some measurements with my Verituner and found that on some notes I
>    could have a
>    unison up to about 8 cents off and you would barely hear the start
>    of a beat!
>    Talk about some mighty easy/fast tuning! Add the false beats into
>    the mix and
>    those dead scale areas can actually be an asset for some pianos!
>