convention stuff..

[Zen Reinhardt]

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> From: Phil Bondi <tito@peganet.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: convention stuff..
> Date: Monday, July 28, 1997 10:45 AM
> 
> 
> ..anyone here ever tune a duplex scale..??..after the tune-off, i met up
> with a gentleman from NY going through the duplex scales of all 4
pianos..he
> was looking for an *unfair advantage* for either Virgil or Jim...i
thought
> it was quite interesting..comments?
> 
Too bad people thought the gentleman from New York (I believe his name was
Dan Anderson) could have done something else with his time other than check
the duplexes.  I see him as trying to unearth yet one more of the little
obscurities in pianoland.  I still recall vividly 2 instances in years past
... 1] a technician carefully bumped the aliquot bar in the high treble of
a high quality piano and brought about an explosive improvement to the tone
in that section.  2] some years before that I tried tuning a piano in a
showroom in Boston and found myself tearing my hair out trying to figure
out what it wanted to do.  I saw that the duplex area had been tampered
with so I muted it off with a strip of masking tape.  No doubt this
deadened the tone, but it did make tuning a lot easier.  Then I tried
playing it after pulling off the masking tape and it sounded confused all
over again.  I remember wishing I knew more about this area so that I may
try to correct it.
> 

ZR! RPT
Ann Arbor
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