Wurlitzer break tuning

[Farrell]

Oh, please Jim, make one!!! Where do I enter my credit card number??????

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Coleman, Sr." <pianotoo@imap2.asu.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: Wurlitzer break tuning


> Hi to Patrick Poulson and all:
> 
> The SAT III has the easiest method for dealing with the wild 
> breaks in the stringing scale of such pianos as the Wurlitzer and 
> the Acrosonic. The Double Octave Beat control can be utilized on 
> the fly to handle the foreshortening of the plain wire notes in 
> the temperament octave and then a negative DOB can be utilized to
> shrink the octave going down into the wound strings. Works real neat.
> It keeps the speed of the M3rds fairly close and minimizes the 
> variation in the 4ths and 5ths. The octave are slightly expanded 
> in the lowest plain wires and compressed in the highest wound 
> strings to accomplish a smooth intersection. If one does not lower 
> the lowest plain strings, then the double octave mismatch can 
> become terrible, not to mention the triple octave.
>  
> Maybe I'll do a video on that if there is enough interest.
> 
> Jim Coleman, Sr.