[pianotech] Fw: Steinway duplex scale

James Grebe jamesgrebe at charter.net
Sat Jul 31 14:27:11 MDT 2010


> Hi,
>
> I may have asked this before.  This is one of several Steinway (O)'s I
> have come across that instead of the duplex aliquots in the top 3 sections
> of strings they have a regular raised bars instead.  The rest of the 
> scaling
> is normal.  Do you know why they tried this for and how long and how many
> years they tried this.  This one is from 1906
>
> Jim
> James Grebe
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