Bluthner Tuning

[Nichols]

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At 01:38 PM 2/1/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>At 01:53 PM 2/1/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hello Susan and Cy.
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>>Am I understanding correctly that in "older" Bluthner piano tunings, the 
>>fourth string is tuned an octave higher than the unisons before the high 
>>treble break?
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>>Also, could you provide me with the definition of Aliquot strings.  Is 
>>that the manufacturer or what the fourth string is called?
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>>Thanks again.
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>>Aart
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>Merriam-Webster online says:
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>Main Entry:al·i·quot
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>Pronunciation:'a-l&-"kwät, -kw&t
>Function:adjective
>Etymology:Medieval Latin aliquotus, from Latin aliquot some, several, from 
>alius other + quot how many -- more at 
><http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/else>ELSE, 
><http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/quote>QUOTE
>1 : contained an exact number of times in something else -- used of a 
>divisor or part <5 is an aliquot part of 15> <an aliquot portion of a solution>
>2 : <http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/fractional>FRACTIONAL <an aliquot part 
>of invested capital>
>- aliquot noun
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>Translated into pianoese it could be (1) the agraffe which suspends that 
>4th string and thus terminates that string at an even multiple of the 
>struck strings - unison and octave in the case of Blüthner, (2) the string 
>itself, or (3) a bar resting on the plate which produces some higher 
>number (but still, a whole integer) as found in the "duplex scales" such 
>as Steinway.
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