<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3612.1700"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=290520203-20031999><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial = size=2>Greetings, List.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=290520203-20031999><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial = size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=290520203-20031999><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial = size=2>Today I tuned a first for me--a 1960s Steinway console. What seemed odd was = that from G5 to the top of the piano, the majority of the strings (middle ones, at = least) had false beats. That, or else there was some other noise that was = coming from somewhere. The beats ranged from about 1 per second to around 8 per = second. At first I thought it might have been that my strip mute was not muting the = outer strings properly, but I tried with the strip mute and two rubber = mutes--same beats. When I tuned the other strings, it sounded better, but was still = somewhat noticeable in that the unisons were not as "clean" as in, say, = a Yamaha of the same size.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=290520203-20031999><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial = size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=290520203-20031999><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial = size=2>Since this was my first, are all Steinway consoles like this? If you have any experience with Steinway consoles, I'd really be interested in hearing it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=290520203-20031999><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial = size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>John = Formsma</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>