[pianotech] Fw: Fw: Steinway duplex scale

James Grebe jamesgrebe at charter.net
Mon Aug 2 07:03:08 MDT 2010


I cannot believe that I am the only tuner in the world that has run into one 
of these.  How about it?
James

>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I may have asked this before.  This is one of several Steinway (O)'s I
>> have come across that instead of the duplex aliquots in the top 3 
>> sections
>> of strings they have a regular raised bars instead.  The rest of the
>> scaling
>> is normal.  Do you know why they tried this for and how long and how many
>> years they tried this.  This one is from 1906
>>
>> Jim
>> James Grebe
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