Well I tuned the piano today. In fairness, I would say it has in the past been tuned with reasonable regularity. I was given a slip of paper with the bride's name and address to send the bill. The piano turned out to be an 1898 Bluthner grand. It is the first time I have encountered one with the famous Bluthner aliquot scale, with the unstruck octave-higher fourth string for every note from G4 up. I don't know what the piano was like new, of course, but I can't say I thought the aliquot strings did much for the sound. They were all horribly false, too, when I tuned them by plucking. It struck me as odd that the non-speaking length should be so much longer than the speaking length for most of them, and also that the non-speaking lengths had only a thin cloth strip interwoven to mute them. I felt for any movement of the unstruck strings on playing the note, and there was some, certainly, but I don;t think it contributed much to the tone. I couldn't really tell a differnece when I sounded the note with the aliquot string muted. I loved the old wooden music stand beside the piano. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Bluthner Aliquot 1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 84102 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070706/edd0761d/attachment-0003.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Bluthner aliquot 2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 60634 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070706/edd0761d/attachment-0004.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Music stand 2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 61706 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070706/edd0761d/attachment-0005.jpg
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