This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment ------=_NextPart_001_0114_01C596EB.46A8B670 Re: Bluthner TuningTerry, it should be easy to decide this. Where the = aliquot strings are the same length as the other 3 strings of the = unison, tune them to the same pitch. In the lower part of the scale the = aliquots are shorter, bearing on a separate bridge on the soundboard. = Those should probably be tuned an octave high. Look at the attached = picture. I don't think all Bluthners have this separate bridge for aliquots (ans = some Bluthners have no aliquots at all, just 3 string unisons like most = other pianos). Anyway, if the aliquot length is the same as the length = of the 3 strings then it should be tuned to the same pitch. Calin Tantareanu ---------------------------------------------------- http://calin.1L.com ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Farrell=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Bluthner Tuning I had someone reply to me privately on this subject. He suggested = something that no one else had mentioned. "...there are two sections with the extra string. in the lower section = you tune the fourth string an octave higher than the notes to which they = correspond and in the upper section you tune the extra strings in unison = to the strings below." This information reportedly came from a Bluthner dealer. I'd sure hate = to be wrong and start breaking strings. Anyone else ever hear of this? = Is there any possibility that there were different scales that were = tuned differently? Terry Farrell I just booked a first-time tuning for a Bluthner grand (first time = for me to tune it). It is said to be about 55 years old. Is this piano = likely to have the 4th string aliquot system up in the high treble? If = so, is there any special tuning techniques for it? I've never tuned one = of these. Just pluck it and tune it beatless with the other three = strings of each note? Terry Farrell ------=_NextPart_001_0114_01C596EB.46A8B670 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b7/57/36/58/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_0114_01C596EB.46A8B670-- ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: bluthner hupfeld pianola 1910 2.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 62476 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/40/55/68/b3/bluthnerhupfeldpianola19102.jpg ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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