Bluthner Tuning

[Avery Todd]

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Terry,

I'd suggest contacting Jim Reeder. He's a Bluthner dealer and also a 
rebuilder.
He helped me once on one I had to tune (my first one).

http://www.reederpianos.com/

Avery

At 01:27 PM 8/1/05, you wrote:
>I had someone reply to me privately on this subject. He suggested 
>something that no one else had mentioned.
>
>"...there are two sections with the extra string. in the lower 
>section you tune the fourth string an octave higher than the notes 
>to which they correspond and in the upper section you tune the extra 
>strings in unison to the strings below."
>
>This information reportedly came from a Bluthner dealer. I'd sure 
>hate to be wrong and start breaking strings. Anyone else ever hear 
>of this? Is there any possibility that there were different scales 
>that were tuned differently?
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>I just booked a first-time tuning for a Bluthner grand (first time 
>for me to tune it). It is said to be about 55 years old. Is this 
>piano likely to have the 4th string aliquot system up in the high 
>treble? If so, is there any special tuning techniques for it? I've 
>never tuned one of these. Just pluck it and tune it beatless with 
>the other three strings of each note?
>
>Terry Farrell

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