[CAUT] 1/4 tone piano conversion

[Andrew Anderson]

Chris Finger is a Sauter dealer, might have been a Sauter.

Andrew
At 05:44 PM 12/3/2007, you wrote:
>Cool!
>
>Chris Fingers (Denver Co) has a piano that is straight strung (of 
>course) and I'm not absolutely sure but it seemed to be 31 note 
>division of the octave. I think it had 96 keys too. He had the music 
>for it on the piano to try. It seems it was a special Grotrian. 
>Maybe Chris H. remembers. That is the most bizarre "piano" thing 
>I've ever played.
>
>Jim Busby
>
>
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>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf 
>Of Fred Sturm
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:34 PM
>To: College and University Technicians
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] 1/4 tone piano conversion
>
>
>On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:
>
>
>He explained it to me as an upright that had been converted.  Quite 
>possibly it was two pianos as described.  I'll have to pin him down 
>on more details.  My first reaction was, you can't do that with this 
>type of piano, you'll have to buy a Sauter Microtonal piano (problem 
>is it does 1/16" tone)
><http://www.sauter-pianos.de/english/pianos/microtone.html>http://www.sauter-pianos.de/english/pianos/microtone.html.
>He was insistent on the possibility and then I explained how bass 
>strings would break and how the treble would go dead.  Not having 
>much experience here I said I would inquire into the possibility of 
>re-scaling the piano to do the job.  I think I have the answer 
>though. :-)  Much easier to do two especially when playing...imagine 
>one octave every 24 keys.  He could...
>
>Andrew Anderson
>
>The link from Sauter includes the following quote:
>"Quarter tone instruments have already been around for a long time."
>I was curious, so I Googled quarter tone piano. A couple links:
>
><http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738789,00.html>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738789,00.html 
>(Time Magazine 1930 article, two keyboard instrument made by Baldwin)
>
><http://www.jstor.org/view/00274631/ap020048/02a00050/0>http://www.jstor.org/view/00274631/ap020048/02a00050/0 
>(Musical Quarterly 1926 article, three keyboard instrument made by 
>German firm Forster)
>
>         That's a much time as I had (between tunings - mental 
> health break), but there were probably a few more specific pianos 
> and designs. Along with sites talking about two pianos tuned 1/4 
> tone apart and references to electronics.
>
>Regards,
>Fred Sturm
>University of New Mexico
><mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>fssturm at unm.edu
>
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