Wound trichords in a spinet??? Does an ETD help?

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Bill,

I do tune aurally the vast majority of the time, but occasionally check it 
against my ETD.  I will always go by what my ear tells me.  Unfortunately, my 
ear told me that tuning this section of the piano was going to be a 
challenge.  My ear was right.

Thanks for the input, one and all.

Dave S.

In a message dated 7/10/02 12:35:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Billbrpt@AOL.COM writes:

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> I'm glad you found some redeeming value in the Betsy Ross spinet, many who 
> write on here wouldn't.  Actually, I think you would do best tuning 
> aurally.  The problem you describe with 3 strings in which the windings are 
> not exactly the same is called a "snarl".  What is happening is 3 different 
> amounts of inharmonicity.  Don't be frustrated by that, just accept the 
> fact that it is impossible to tune the type of unison you are capable of on 
> a better made and designed piano. 
> 
> You simply get it as close as you can without stressing out about it and 
> move on.  Most ETD's offer a calculated program that focuses on one 
> particular partial.  That calculation is likely to be incorrect for this 
> kind of piano.  There may be ways of resetting the ETD to make it match the 
> scale design but by the time you've done that, you could have had it 
> already done and moved on by tuning aurally.  Your ear will be able to sort 
> out these mismatches and make the best compromise the quickest.   
> 
> It is not necessary or even advisable to make excuses about the way the 
> piano sounds to the customer.  Usually, a person with this type of piano is 
> not very discriminating.  They are used to the way it sounds.  Certainly, 
> no other technician has been able to do anything about the problem so you 
> can be sure that none has been able to make it sound better than you can. 
> 
> This goes for false beats and poorly wound strings in bigger and better 
> pianos too.  It's better to just do the best you can and be done with it.  
> If a customer does pick up on the imperfection, that is the time to explain 
> that it can't really be made to sound better.  If changing of strings or 
> structural repair will solve these problems on a better piano, then offer 
> that as the solution, don't say, "It's not my fault". 
> 
> Bill Bremmer RPT 
> Madison, Wisconsin 
> 



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