And not even a hockey stick end to the long bridge. Will wonders never cease! Thanks for the pic. Terry Farrell On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > > I tuned an interesting piano this morning - at 77°F and 79%RH, but > that's another thing. It's a Kohler & Campbell spinet, circa 1953, > that I've tuned for about 15 years now. I'd love to see this string > scale in the spreadsheet. Fans of monochords will count 21! This > leaves 4 bichords on the bass bridge for a total of 25 notes in the > bass. Then, in a spinet, mind you, there are an additional 11 > bichords on a low tenor transition bridge! This makes the first > plain wire unison at A-3 #37, about in the vicinity where a current > redesign approach might put it. Couldn't have been Del's doing. He > would have been about 9 at the time. <G> > > It sounds better than usual, even with the wrapped strings getting > funky, and the hammers wearing out. The neat thing is that there's > no dramatic pitch change at the low tenor with seasonal changes. It > tracks along pretty closely with the high bass, and blends far > better than I'm used to hearing in pianos this size. > > Somebody was apparently thinking, and was allowed to try to do > something right. > > Anyone know anything about this? > Ron N > <Kohler transition.jpg><Kohler bass.jpg>
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