---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 9/27/01 8:34:37 AM Central Daylight Time, jformsma@dixie-net.com writes: > They both "agree" with each other, and both sounding together produce a > > "perfect" octave in which all the partials best agree. When tuning treble > octaves, if your top note is too sharp, you can think of your triangle > leaning to the right. When the top note is too flat, you can think of the > triangle leaning to the left. To correct a bad octave, make your triangle > stop leaning, and come to the "straight up" position. I still test my > octaves, but find that I have to do less retuning with this technique. > John The concept is good, but the result might not be what I want. In order for the treble to sound more in tune, we generally have to stretch the top note a tad. So in a sense, although you can visualize a straight standing triangle, you actually want to have that triable leaning to the right. When I used to tune strictly by ear, I tuned, what I thought, were "perfect" octaves, the kind you are visualizing. My wife, Jan, also tunes, but relies more on the Accutuner. We both tuned for the same customer, a friend from church, who told me that she liked Jan's tuning better. I listened to the tuning, and to my ears, found the top octaves too high. When I started using my Accutuner almost exclusively, (except for unisons), I had to get used to what the machine was telling me. At first I kept trying to bring down the octaves. But now that I am used to it, the octaves do sound much better. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/16/bc/ae/a0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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