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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gene Nelson</b> <<a href="mailto:nelsong@pbic.net">nelsong@pbic.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Have a client with a 1900 Bechstein 7'</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The board is dead and needs replacement. Bass strings appear in good shape -not full of crud and clean looking- but are a little tubby sounding.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">While tuning several of the top bass bichords I can tune the unisons very well, however - when the unisons are in tune, one string of the unison will be quite a bit out of tune with all adjacent intervals - 3rds, 10ths, 6ths, octaves etc. If I tune the intervals to sound ok then the unison is out of tune as one of the strings will agree with intervals and the other will not.
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The tuning ends up sounding ok but I have not been to resolve this to my satisfaction. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have tuned it aurally and with a SAT - the aural tunings work better but it is easy to get lost using either - afraid of breaking a string.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have tried alternative techniques like focusing ear and SAT on fundamental frequency rather than the partials with the same resultant issues.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Anyone else ever experience this?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Gene Nelson</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div></div></blockquote></div>How worn are the hammers? What is the condition of the bass bridge? Either or both acting together could be affecting what you are describing. A third possibility is the strings have been replaced with a lesser quality product and that's why they look so good!?
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