Well, speaking lengths were the reason I was having a fair bit of trouble imagining how in the world I was going to tune a low treble string an octave higher! Not having ever tuned a Bluthner before, and only seeing one a couple times at conferences, I was not aware that the 4th string in the low treble terminate at a shorter speaking length as their respective regular unisons. But now that I understand it a little better (or at least I have this weird picture in my head), I think it will be pretty obvious when I get up close and personal with this thing. Terry Farrell >> /"...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 > > > Terry, > Speaking lengths........ > Ron N
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