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hi dan,pleased your happy with the end result!.l am a real bluthner fan,in my mind they are the best!.l had an old upright that l re built and sold on....what a fool!.

Thanks Eddie,

Yes I am really happy about the way this piece came up, and I have in mind to keep it but also I am a merchant too right??

So I have put a high figure on it and if someone is willing…… well I will let it go………..and then of course I will be regretful like yourself!!

Until of course I fall in love with the next one that comes along……………………. Hey eddie got a picture of an upright Blüthner for me??

Ron,
Good spelling on the huffy/puffy thingy. Thanks for your input and support. Being a consummate professional is the only way to go.

A Merry go round?? I was thinking more like Cuckoo’s nest……………but I digress…………………

Dan, It was kind of you to ask after my Bluthner. No further information as yet about the wire that my restorer used. When I speak to him next I can ask him - though after nine years or so I am not sure if he would remember.

I did indeed enjoy your tour! Interesting to see the detailed photos of the Aliquot arrangement as of 1979 vintage. And the loops looked so neat! My own piano (nearly 100 years older!) is not an Aliquot model. I have heard conflicting opinions about the benefits of the Aliquot idea. My tuner was of the opinion that it did not in fact make very much difference (but that it made tuning more difficult!). Certainly my own Bluthner has an incredibly sweet treble, virtually all the way to the top. If an Aliquot version could improve on it, that would really be quite something.

My Bluthner was manufactured during the transition period when they had not yet moved to the overstringing arrangement which is now standard. It has a rather unusual arrangement where the bass is virtually straight-strung, and the tenor strings (i.e. the lowest unwound strings) are angled to the right instead of the left and attach to their own bridge, overstringing the lowest treble strings. I will try to post a picture if I can remember how to do it. This arrangement does, I suppose, have the benefit that the lowest tenor strings are not attached near the rim as they would be nowadays.

Having become interested in the development of Bluthner stringing arrangements, I have been collecting photos of older Bluthners. If you are interested I could post some photos of the older Aliquots.

PS: I am planning to post about a slight problem with my Bluthner, re which I would be grateful for advice. I do hope you will still be around to read it!

No, I am behind the camera. I wish I played like those guys. That is the piano tuner's regret, I guess.

David-G,

If you are having problems with the picture posting send me an email through my web site and I can give you a free download of something that will organize your photos for you. Then you can open a web album like I did and show them through a hot link posted here.

There is no need to use this forums UBB code to point your computer towards so to speak. You can have online folders and create your own displays!!

Yes the aliquot does make for a different sound for sure.

I will be around for a bit…… got a really unusual action to show but can’t get the pic’s until the weekend.

Yes by all means post some pictures of older Blüthners. And let us know about your problem with your Blüthner. If I am not here click on my web site icon and we can talk directly in private email.

Cheers

David, Dan also sent it to me and I love it. It works great and is very easy to use.

Dan:

Sorry, I meant to be encouraging.

I shouldn't have dealings with people.

David, that program Dan found is great. I have never posted pictures here until today when I used that. It's great.

Tooner, maybe you just need a good PR man. I'm for hire, but I might get us both killed...hehe

Jeff,
It is not to worry about. Past it. Let us speak no more of it then. I bit down a little hard there.My apologies too.

Two wrongs I think there……………we can do much better you and I …………………………………………………

..man that line sounds like a bad song coming…………….

Well Dan, if you and Toonner decide to sing it. Maybe BDB will play a little piano, and I'll have Maybelle hand me my flattop!!!!

I am astonished to see a pic showing glass of some liquid on a grand piano on this forum.

Damned no brain musicians and concert organizers !

Isaac,

Yes you are right. I did not notice this in the foreground. And on the Blüthner too!! I guess just because folks can play them does not mean they can take care of them properly. In studio work this type of thing is quite common here. Keeps all of the technicians busy here repairing!!

Drives me crazy too!! Musicians just don’t think about what they are doing sometimes…………..