Hey there Eric.. Perhaps I have been influenced by living over here for so many years now.. but I could never deal with and OTS 8. Just not in my personal preferences box anymore. I never stretch in the treble more then a OTS4 allows for, and generally like the 3 up there. The bass is a different story. I like to push them down there, prefering the low roll to the tension of all those fast beating higher partials. I slow as many down as I can get away with down there. In the end tho... the most important thing is consistancy.... at least in ET tunings. my take anyways RicB "Wolfley, Eric (WOLFLEEL)" wrote: > I think the pianos are all going to sound different even if they are tuned > perfectly together. Nothing wrong with being in tune... I'm going to throw > some fertilizer on the fire here and ask everybody how much stretch they put > in their concert tunings...All four of these pianos are pretty well scaled - > no big surprises. I think they would all sound pretty good with an averaged > tuning file and sound good together as long as the stretching was done > equally. I've been using OTS 8 on my cybertuner with excellent results and > feedback here. People don't seem to mind 2 BPS in the double octaves. > Wouldn't good unisons amongst all 4 pianos be preferable? The slight > differences in stretched double-octave beat rates would not be as noticeable > in my opinion. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Eric Wolfley, RPT > Head Piano Technician > Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music > University of Cincinnati > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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