How would one ordinarily tune the aliquot? David says he plucked it, but could it be excited by playing the octave above? Of course this would only work up to the C7 aliquot.<br><br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div>
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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>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.
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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>
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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.
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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.
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I loved the old wooden music stand beside the piano. </div>
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