Ethics for parsimonious customers

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Hi David,

I tune one of these guys, too.? Despite all it's quirks, I find it quite likable, with a sweet sound.? Hope you enjoyed your encounter with a little piece of history!


Dave Stahl
Dave Stahl Piano Service
650-224-3560
dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net
http://dstahlpiano.net/






-----Original Message-----
From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 6:19 pm
Subject: Re: Ethics for parsimonious customers


Well I tuned the piano today. In fairness, I would say it has in the past been tuned with reasonable regularity. I was given a slip of paper with the bride's name and address to send the bill.?
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The piano turned out to be an 1898 Bluthner grand. It is the first time I have encountered one with the famous Bluthner aliquot scale, with the unstruck octave-higher fourth string for every note from G4 up.?
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I don't know what the piano was like new, of course, but I can't say I thought the aliquot strings did much for the sound. They were all horribly false, too, when I tuned them by plucking. It struck me as odd that the non-speaking length should be so much longer than the speaking length for most of them, and also that the non-speaking lengths had only a thin cloth strip interwoven to mute them.?
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I felt for any movement of the unstruck strings on playing the note, and there was some, certainly, but I don;t think it contributed much to the tone. I couldn't really tell a differnece when I sounded the note with the aliquot string muted.?
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I loved the old wooden music stand beside the piano. 


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