Dave & List, If I remember correctly, there was quite a "thread" about this in the Journal quite a few years ago. It seems that the general consensus was that because the unisons do change (slightly) relatively quickly anyway (I'm not referring to an unstable tuning), one shouldn't purposely tune a unison slightly out to achieve that "fatness" of tone. The only exception I've ever heard to this, is a short blurb in the Journal, also many years ago, that a tuner had been called back by the artist to do a little unison retuning because they were *too* pure for the piece that was being played. Oh, that we all could have that problem. :-) Avery >At times, I hear a thread about making unisons less than perfect to give >more sustain, body, color etc. I have been a piano tech for 24 years >and I have never done a unison I thought was TOO clean. I have never >tried to make anything but as precise a unison as I could. I have also >never heard anyone else's unison that was too clean. > >Where did this idea come from? It seems totally foreign to me. If >clean is good, then there is no such thing as "too clean." Right?!?! > >dave _____________________________________ Avery Todd Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu http://www.uh.edu/music/ _____________________________________
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