Bluthner Tuning (long-winded rehash of unison tuning)

[Horace Greeley]

Hi,

At 04:12 PM 2/3/2006, you wrote:

>>Also, I know specifically of one major contemporary venue in which 
>>this was done to the primary concert instrument...no, the 
>>technician who did it is no longer employed there.
>
>Ready for a different sort of institution, I would guess ... well, 
>there is more than one way to tell an employer to "take this job and shove it."

Actually, both the venue and the technician involved are 
exceptionally well-known...recordings of broadcast concerts abound.

This was one of those times when someone went forward with what some 
in the profession consider to be "advanced" work without checking 
with anyone in charge...most often, this kind of problem has to do 
with actions and desperately poorly understood and executed 
applications of David Stanwood's work and theories, but not 
always.  In this case, the person involved decided that the 
instrument in question had a "weak" board and that the bridges were 
"not properly notched", resulting in any number of real and imagined 
problems.  So, the solution, in that person's mind was to create an 
instrument which truly would have an "una corda"...and so it goes....

Best.

Horace