This is a Louis Zwicky console from Denmark.The tuning pins are mounted vertically necessitating at 90º bearing point for the strings. Rendering was problematic as one might expect, I didn't use a lubricant but probably should have. The rendering problem seemed to get worse as the string sizes got smaller, the bass wasn't too bad. Adding to the difficulty to setting the pins is that although the pins are basically laid out like a grand, the strings are going toward you rather than away from you so the leverage is reversed vis a vis the lever and pins. That was pretty disorienting, it probably would have helped if I could tune left handed which I cannot.
The piano soundedLL like it hadn't been tuned in a couple of generations, a single pass tuning took a long time. It was so bad that the young lady, who's only been playing for 6 months had been practicing with headphones on so she couldn't hear it just so she could work on finger technique. She's actually pretty good already considering.
This isn't the first unusual Danish piano I've run into, they're an inventive people.
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Steven Rosenthal
Honolulu HI
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