Hi David,<br> <br> I tune one of these guys, too.  Despite all it's quirks, I find it quite likable, with a sweet sound.  Hope you enjoyed your encounter with a little piece of history!<br> <br> <div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl<br> Dave Stahl Piano Service<br> 650-224-3560<br> dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<br> http://dstahlpiano.net/<br> <br> <br> <br> </div> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: David Boyce <David@piano.plus.com><br> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 6:19 pm<br> Subject: Re: Ethics for parsimonious customers<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_1_9de4940d-8c18-43d8-b76b-a2d86b736049 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff">Well I tuned the piano today. In fairness, I would say it has in the past been tuned with reasonable regularity. I was given a slip of paper with the bride's name and address to send the bill. <br>  <br> The piano turned out to be an 1898 Bluthner grand. It is the first time I have encountered one with the famous Bluthner aliquot scale, with the unstruck octave-higher fourth string for every note from G4 up. <br>  <br> I don't know what the piano was like new, of course, but I can't say I thought the aliquot strings did much for the sound. They were all horribly false, too, when I tuned them by plucking. It struck me as odd that the non-speaking length should be so much longer than the speaking length for most of them, and also that the non-speaking lengths had only a thin cloth strip interwoven to mute them. <br>  <br> I felt for any movement of the unstruck strings on playing the note, and there was some, certainly, but I don;t think it contributed much to the tone. I couldn't really tell a differnece when I sounded the note with the aliquot string muted. <br>  <br> I loved the old wooden music stand beside the piano. </div> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_9de4940d-8c18-43d8-b76b-a2d86b736049 style="MARGIN: 10px"><A href="http://webmail.aol.com/28363/aol/en-us/Mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=1.16666021&folder=New+Mail&partId=2" target=_blank>[Image Removed] <br> </A></div>  <div id=AOLMsgPart_3_9de4940d-8c18-43d8-b76b-a2d86b736049 style="MARGIN: 10px"><A href="http://webmail.aol.com/28363/aol/en-us/Mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=1.16666021&folder=New+Mail&partId=3" target=_blank>[Image Removed] <br> </A></div>  <div id=AOLMsgPart_4_9de4940d-8c18-43d8-b76b-a2d86b736049 style="MARGIN: 10px"><A href="http://webmail.aol.com/28363/aol/en-us/Mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=1.16666021&folder=New+Mail&partId=4" target=_blank>[Image Removed] <br> </A></div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <a href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000437" target="_blank"><b>AOL.com</b></a>.<br /> </div>