<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16525" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <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.</FONT></DIV> <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></BODY></HTML>