Had the great pleasure to work with Harry Connick Jr. yesterday. His S&S 'D' was doing something I had never heard before - up around G#6, I started hearing 2 ghost tones(A#5 and D6) as I would play - never heard anything like it before in my life - I know of F2 producing an A4 overtone(not present on this D), but I have never heard these ghosts before - The sound man came up to me while I was tuning and asked how the piano was - it was in good shape - this was the first gig tht the D was being used in awhile - Harry has been overseas and the D had some cabinet damage to it - whoever did the repair did a good job - not noticeable unless you were really looking for it. anyway, I pointed out the ghosts to the sound man, who seemed just as surprised as me - he said in context, he wouldn't hear these ghosts, but wondered where they might come from..I really have no idea. By the way, I heard these ghosts at the 1PM tuning - at the 5PM tuning, the ghosts were gone....maybe they went to the beach?? Rook
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