> Greetings, List. Today I tuned a first for me--a 1960s Steinway >console. What seemed odd was that from G5 to the top of the piano, the >majority of the strings (middle ones, at least) had false beats. That, or >else there was some other noise that was coming from somewhere. The beats >ranged from about 1 per second to around 8 per second. At first I thought >it might have been that my strip mute was not muting the outer strings >properly, but I tried with the strip mute and two rubber mutes--same >beats. When I tuned the other strings, it sounded better, but was still >somewhat noticeable in that the unisons were not as "clean" as in, say, a >Yamaha of the same size. Since this was my first, are all Steinway >consoles like this? If you have any experience with Steinway consoles, >I'd really be interested in hearing it. Thanks, John Formsma I tuned my first such about a month or so ago, and it was similar. The tuning pins were extremely tight. But it sounded great when I was done. Arlie Arlie D. Rauch Glendive, MT If you have nothing better to do, check out http://members.tripod.com/~Turbooster/. You'll be glad you did.
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