[pianotech] Fw: Fw: Steinway duplex scale

David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net
Mon Aug 2 07:54:28 MDT 2010


I have one in the shop right now.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, the
early Model O had the cast in aliquots, later they changed it to the tuned
duplex style removable aliquots (along with some other things like the bass
bridge design) until the O was eventually phased out.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of James Grebe
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 6:03 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: [pianotech] Fw: Fw: Steinway duplex scale

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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