<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT face=Arial>David's post on = the amazingly stable Kawai grand triggered this post--specifically that it = had high treble false beats in an acustically live room.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT face=Arial>I recently = tuned a 60's era spinet that was way out of wack. The customer wanted to know if it was a = "keeper" or whether she should start saving for a new piano. Ignoring = the obvious and prejudicial answer, I said that we'd have to see how it = sounds after repairs and tuning.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT face=Arial>After bridge = repairs, two new strings, a 120+ cent pitch raise and two tuning passes, it sounded = amazingly not-so-bad. I told her so and she agreed. As the discussion was rather = in depth and she wanted me to be frank--Frank Who? one might ask--I did point out = that there were false beats in the upper treble. She asked me to demonstrate, = and I did.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT face=Arial>This was her = reaction: "Well, that's just a bonus: extra vibrato."</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=781594415-30082003><FONT face=Arial>So you = see, we should have been promoting the positive side of this phenomenon all along!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan R. = Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Salem, MO</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>---<BR> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.<BR> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).<BR> Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003<BR> </FONT> </P>