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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Cool!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Fred Sturm<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 03, 2007
4:34 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">College
and University Technicians</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [CAUT] 1/4 tone piano
conversion</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 color=black
face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><span
style='orphans: 2;text-align:auto;widows: 2;-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;word-spacing:0px'>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)</span></font></span><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><br>
<span class=apple-style-span><a
href="http://www.sauter-pianos.de/english/pianos/microtone.html">http://www.sauter-pianos.de/english/pianos/microtone.html</a>.</span><br>
<span class=apple-style-span>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...</span><br>
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<span class=apple-style-span>Andrew Anderson</span></span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The link from Sauter includes the
following quote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"Quarter tone instruments
have already been around for a long time."</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I was curious, so I Googled
quarter tone piano. A couple links:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><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></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><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></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></span><span
class=apple-style-span><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>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.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>Fred Sturm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font size=3
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face=Helvetica><span style='font-family:Helvetica'> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New
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font-family:Helvetica'><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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