About 20 years ago, I tuned a "Mirror Piano" with a few extra added features. The piano had been miniaturized by ...now get this... cutting off the bottom of the plate, welding on a steel strip across the bottom, drilling new hitch pins, making a new bass bridge, (eliminating the apron) a new set of bass strings with wound strings on the treble bridge, strung on the outer pins of the trichord, leaving the middle empty. The tuning was ,of course, worse than a La Petite. Laughable, in fact. Octaves and fifths could not co-exist in the same piano! When the customer called back 5 years later for another tuning, I accidentally lost their phone number! Jerry Wood
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