nd board, 44

Seasons for tuning, 198

Soft pedal, 29, 36, 38

Sound board, 16
split, 44
unglued, 45
waves, interference of, 78, 150

Splicing piano wire, 176

Spring rail, 29

Stringing of upright, 16, 17

Strings growing sharper, 88
putting in new, 174, 175
rendering through bridges, 112, 114
splicing, 176

Study and practice of tuning, 66

Sustaining pedal, 30
squeaking of, 55

Sympathetic rattle, 43

Syntonic comma, 132

Systems of temperament, various, 163

System A, 165
B, 166
C, 167, 168

Tables of relative string length, 131, 136, 140, 143

Temperament, advantages of the two-octave, 171
equal, 97, 144
Fischer system, 74
finishing up, 156
introductory remarks on, 68, 72
rationale of, 128, 139
requisites of, 133
setting, specific instructions, 85
theory of, 97
unequal, 98
various systems, 163-168

Tension, equalization of, 111, 112

Terms to express tone qualities, 193-196

Testing by thirds and tenths, 170

Tests, chords, 94, 99, 103

Third, excessive sharpness of, 95, 103

Thirds, major, 135
major, sharper than perfect, 135
minor, flatter than perfect, 141

Tones, harmonic, 120, 130

Touch, altering the, 48

Treble, extreme, sharper than perfect, 159

Tuning, instructions for first experiments in, 92-95
hammer, manipulation of, 110, 115, 116
pins, marking of in square, 122
loose, 173
setting of, 112-114
the bass, 160
the treble, 157, 159

Vibration numbers, comparison of, 137, 146, 147, 148

Watchmaker's screwdriver, use of in piano repairing, 63

Wippen, 25

Wire splicing, 176

Wooden parts, shrinking, rattling, 59
repairing of small, 63

[Transcriber's note:

1. Bold text is enclosed in tilde (~) characters.

2. On page 197, 'tones' has been misspelt in the original text as
'tonse'.]

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