This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Now try tuning one with an aluminum plate. Talk about instability ...! = But hey -- they were light enough for ordinary people (as opposed to = piano movers) to push around to their liking. (I'll leave it to your collective imaginations where some of these may = have ended up after a good push.) Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alan R. Barnard=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: Winter & Co. .... Blahhh Are all Winter & Co. pianos mucho crappy or just the ones I tune? = Wound bichords up to G#36 (5 notes on the tenor bridge). Wild strings = everywhere. Whiny trichords. Thumpy, wumpy lowest octave. Unstable as = all get-out for about 3 notes either side of the tenor-treble break... Seems like a lot of people, over the years, went shopping for a piano = but were tricked by the nice-looking furniture! Of course, today's wasn't really a completely fair example ... hadn't = been tuned since 1985! Oh, and another plug for Sanderson Pitch Correction -- this sucker was = all over the place from 12 to 80 cents flat. Adjusted my percentages = about every 6 to 12 notes. Ended up reaaaaaaal close. It always amazes = me how well it works! Alan Barnard Raisin' Cain (and pitch) in Salem, MO ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3b/8e/2c/b0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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