Hi David, I tune one of these guys, too.? Despite all it's quirks, I find it quite likable, with a sweet sound.? Hope you enjoyed your encounter with a little piece of history! Dave Stahl Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ -----Original Message----- From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 6:19 pm Subject: Re: Ethics for parsimonious customers 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. [Image Removed] [Image Removed] [Image Removed] ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070706/7b7f292a/attachment.html
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