Greetings, I believe their placement more directly affects the bearing angle than the harmonic involvement. They sympathetically produce a smear of high partials, so don't know that 'tuning' is an option. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> To: caut <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, Jul 14, 2012 5:10 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] St. D Aliquot bar specs On 7/14/2012 4:35 PM, Dr. Henry Nicolaides wrote: > It is my understanding that the Steinway aliquot is not designed to give > any specific frequency but give rise to random sympathetic vibration. > I have checked this trying to "tune" the aliquoit with some degree of > frustration. Maybe someone else can clear up this mystery. > Henry Nicolaides > Piano Technician, southern Illinois University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20120715/cf60d1a9/attachment.htm>
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