<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">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)<br><a href="http://www.sauter-pianos.de/english/pianos/microtone.html">http://www.sauter-pianos.de/english/pianos/microtone.html</a>.<br>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...<br><br>Andrew Anderson</span></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The link from Sauter includes the following quote:</div>"Quarter tone instruments have already been around for a long time."</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; ">I was curious, so I Googled quarter tone piano. A couple links:</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738789,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738789,00.html</a> (Time Magazine 1930 article, two keyboard instrument made by Baldwin)</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.jstor.org/view/00274631/ap020048/02a00050/0">http://www.jstor.org/view/00274631/ap020048/02a00050/0</a> (Musical Quarterly 1926 article, three keyboard instrument made by German firm Forster) </span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span></span></font></div></div></body></html>