bunches of false beats

[A440A]

 I wrote inre false beats in cheap pianos: 
>    I think they are chiefly caused by poor quality chipping at the factory.
> The "strong-armed lad" chipping 20 pianos a day can often be expected to
> overshoot the pitch of the string.  NOt enough to break it, but enough to
> distort it.  

   Bill asked: 
>Is this why the cheap Aeolian products --e.g., Henry F. Miller etc--  sound
so
>wild even after the best tuning one can muster?

     It is likely.  I have replaced strings in these low-end pianos, and was
gratified to find that the replacement sounded a lot better.  
Regards, 
Ed Foote