Greetings all - I have a (potential) customer who recently acquired a Wegman baby grand with what he referred to as requiring an unusual tuning procedure. He was told that it required both a special tuning hammer and a technician that was trained for this method. From what I've so far discovered it's using what is/was referred to as the Beale and Vader Patented Tuning System. I have not yet seen this piano. Google eventually came up with this. Wanna see how it works: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5471902.pdf Question one: Why did this system fail? Too expensive to manufacture or did it just not work very well. Question two: How does one go about tuning one of these things? What is the special technique? Question three: Is this piano unique enough to be of any real value, for whatever reason? I found this subject showing up several times in the archives but the discussions were mostly about other things. I look forward to everyone's responses. Thanks - -- Geoff . Geoff Sykes, RPT . 626-799-7545 . <http://www.ivories52.com> www.ivories52.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100307/e5075b6e/attachment.htm>
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