Unisons

[Michel Lachance]

Tom Myler wrote:

> 2)  I once found myself tuning a poorly rebuilt Steinway M.    I can't
> recall any specifics about it, except that this piano apparently had
> soundboard and/or bridge problems.  There was a half-octave or so that
> sounded weak, with poor tone, sustain, and it wasn't a hammer/voicing
> problem.    For whatever reasons, C6 was as dead as it could be, and I
> found that deliberately tuning that unison very dirty (by our standards)
> effected an improvement.    It didn't sound "good", but definitely sounded
> "less horrible".
>
> Be that as it may,  I would swear that the tunings which most impress me
> will have (among other things) crystal clear unisons.
>
> Myler, Tom
>
> "Perhaps the greatest wisdom is the knowledge
> of one's own ignorance"
>
>                                  John Steinbeck


I also heard about a tuner who used to slightly untune the couple of
dead notes before the treble break on some of these poorly built old
uprights.

Michel Lachance, RPT