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Chris Finger is a Sauter dealer, might have been a Sauter.<br><br>
Andrew<br>
At 05:44 PM 12/3/2007, you wrote:<br>
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Cool!<br>
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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.<br>
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Jim Busby<br>
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mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Sturm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 03, 2007 4:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> College and University Technicians<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CAUT] 1/4 tone piano conversion<br>
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On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:<br><br>
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</font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" size=1>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<br>
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The link from Sauter includes the following quote:<br>
"Quarter tone instruments have already been around for a long
time."<br>
I was curious, so I Googled quarter tone piano. A couple links:<br>
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<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)<br>
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<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) <br>
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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>
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Regards,<br>
Fred Sturm<br>
University of New Mexico<br>
<a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a><br>
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