"Bloom"

[David Love]

Joe:

It's interesting that you mention that.  I have sometimes wondered whether
the attractiveness of HT's isn't in part driven by the recent tendencies, in
my opinion, to overstretch pianos.  I have heard people on this list talk
about stretching the temperament octave to 1 bps.  This widening of the
octave will create more rapid beating thirds and contribute to a more active
quality in keys where it may not be desirable.  I have also heard people
mention pushing the stretch numbers in the last octaves 70 cents or so.   My
experience is that there is a fine line between enough stretch to get the
extremes of the piano to sound right and so much that the quality of the
3rds becomes less pleasing.  In many things there is an attitude that if
some is good, more is better.  I think stretching reaches a point of
diminishing returns, and does so more quickly than is often practiced.

David Love

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: March 18, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: "Bloom"


> IMHO, try to tune the piano as narrow as possible, rather than expanding
the
> intervals as is normally done.
> Regards,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
>
>