[pianotech] Bass Unison Tuning Trouble Teaser

John Formsma formsma at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 20:09:49 MST 2010


2010/12/12 Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>

> Just can't seem to get clean unisons on the last few upper bass notes on
> this otherwise "stellar" instrument.......
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> Special recognition to whomever can correctly identify the cause(s) of bass
> unison tuning trouble on this piano (see picture below).
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Well, the first string at the bass break -- the winding is way too short
(and looks like it's loose). I'd guess the spliced string is an OK match to
its neighbor. The 3rd string to the left of the splice is noticeably
shorter.


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JF
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