[CAUT] More re. Unison Tuning

[Don]

Hi Jim,

I use only two mutes for tuning and do unisons as you go for the
temperament. Sorry--I forgot to mention that. It saves me about 20 minutes
per tuning over strip muting.

At 02:49 PM 3/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>I see we don't all agree.  That's OK.  I strip mute only the middle of the
>piano when I tune, but not the treble, as some people do.  When I tune the
>treble, I tune unisons as I go, but I tune octaves by single string to
>single string to avoid the situations we talked about earlier.
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>When I tune all the unisins in the middle of the scale, I pull the strip
>mute out, and use a single rubber mute.  I mute the left string and tune
>right string to center string.  I move the mute up one unison, which now
>mutes right string of the lower unison and left srting of the one above it,
>and tune left string of lower unison and right string of upper unison, and
>so on.  This minimizes my mute moving, allows me to go faster, and it
>allows me to individually tune the side strings to the middle string
>without the others sounding.  For me, it reduces the accumulating error I
>would otherwise have.  When I'm done, I go back and check then all.  If I
>find a unison that is not really clean, I fix it.
>
>The reason I said one can obtain better results by tuning individual
>strings to the center strings is that it reduces accumulating error.  In
>the event one ends up with a side string with a plus error and the opposite
>side string with a minus error, resulting in a slow beat with all strings
>open, that can be corrected.  That routine works for me. 
>
>Sincerely, Jim Ellis 
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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