Hi Wim, I don't want to get into HT/WT versus ET in particular, but I think you have to consider the response of a pianist to a piano from a very complex, psycho-physical point of view. Say the pianist uses the same physical approach, and the piano sounds different. It will "feel different" because the feel of what was done has produced a different sound. So both voicing and tuning will cause a piano to "feel different." Make a bit of sense? It has to do with sensory feedback. If, for instance, a pretty light touch produces a relatively "bright" sound (due to voicing or unisons being a little off), and then you tune the unisons or sugar the crowns, the same light touch is producing a less bright sound. "Feels" different. Might be described by some as "heavier" (more effort required to produce the same sound). Similarly, lacquering hammers might make the piano "feel lighter." Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Aug 29, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Willem Blees wrote: > Many times over the years, I have had customers tell me the piano felt > better after I tuned it. One of those times was last week. > > We have 2 D's in our Concert Hall, one about 25 years old, and the > other just 4 years old. The new one is not being played much. On the > advice of Ed Foote, I put a Coleman II on the piano. We had convo on > Friday, and I brought out both pianos for the piano professor to try > out. He didn't say anything about the tuning, but he did say the new > one "felt" better. Another professor also mentioned that the piano > played better than ever before. > > So why does tuning the piano, not just a regular ET tuning, but also a > historical tuning, make the piano feel different? > > Wim > Willem Blees, RPT > Piano Tuner/Technician > School of Music > University of Alabama > Tuscaloosa, AL USA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060829/ccefd83b/attachment-0001.html
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