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Topic: Video about a Bechstein restoration that makes an interesting point

A Bechstein-created film about the Bechstein restored for Wigmore Hall in London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgecQ1uytSA

Makes an interesting point about unisons at around 8:16: Each unison string is a different length, so each will have a slightly different inharmonicity, creating many
near-matches and near-misses for the partials as the unison tuning changes, contributing to what the technician here calls "singing" and "color" in the unisons.

He goes on to say that Steinway and others were all attempting similar things to create this extra dimension, as he also calls it, but that he's not sure that they got it right!

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Re: Video about a Bechstein restoration that makes an interesting point

Jake, I'm not sure if I got right here (timecode) :

https://youtu.be/vgecQ1uytSA?t=490


If this is not developed as today, how it can have a special singing quality that it's suposed lost in modern pianos?

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Re: Video about a Bechstein restoration that makes an interesting point

I think he's saying that Bechstein coordinated the differing inharmonicities to create the singing tone, but the imitators may still be struggling with it. Remember, of course, that this is a Bechstein technician speaking in a video created by Bechstein.

I'm surprised no one has requested the new feature: Separate controls over the length of each string in each unison. Might be lovely to have. Might tax our cpu's?