This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I'd love to have a long talk with you about aural tuning; it's my first=20 and greatest love in this craft. I feel I've elevated my skills to a world-class level by using=20 dead-simple methods: basically allowing all the fourths on the piano to = beat (depending on the piano & its inharmonicities & scale design) slowly, between .5 and 2.0 bps---the same across the entire scale,=20 listening to the whole tone. The aim of my tuning is beauty----evenness and key color, a deep, deep=20 bass, and the same bloom in the struck note that I hear in the plucked=20 note. My ideal is the great pianos I heard on record when I was a=20 child----all tuned by aural tuners using the "one mute, one fork, and = one=20 tuning hammer" method. David Andersen David, I must say, that since I read about your method of listening = to fourths, I've listened to them more, and yes, you really can refine = your tuning in the temperament area by paying attention to them. They = become useless to me above about D5-G5, though. I use the SAT, and = after the first pass, I start out at A4 and tune down to A0, at E4 I = start checking my fourths, and I can immediately tell how much stretch = I'm getting by the speed of the fourths. Also, It tells me when = something has slipped, or is not quite right in the upper temperament = area. But then, I also listen to the faster beating intervals when I'm = done with the temperament. How high can you hear the fourths while = you're tuning?=20 Kevin. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0f/1f/54/d5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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