Aliquot stringing

Aliquot stringing broadens the vibrational energy throughout the instrument, and creates an unusually complex and colorful tone.

Aliquot stringing broadens the vibrational energy throughout the instrument, and creates an unusually complex and colorful tone.

The noted piano authority Larry Fine observes that the Blüthner tone is "refined" and "delicate", particularly "at a low level of volume".

Short lengths of non-speaking wire were bridged by an aliquot throughout much of the upper range of the piano, always in locations that caused them to vibrate in conformity with their respective overtones—typically in doubled octaves and twelfths.

The company trusted that with an accurately templated bridge and carefully located duplex bar, the same result would be achieved with less fuss.

[citation needed] A modern piano manufacture, Fazioli (Sacile, Italy), has blended Steinway's original ideas by creating a stainless-steel track, fixed to the cast-iron plate, on which individual aliquots slide.