Pitch Raise, was: Standard Pitch

[David Love]

I find that there is a bit of distortion right at the attack so I also tune
at a slight delay.  I also use the Verituner but when pulling unisons in,
which I do aurally, I tune initially at the attack, playing the note at
short intervals while roughing the pitch in.  As I get closer and the
refinements get smaller and smaller I tend to move away from the attack and
listen for a more sustained approach.  That would be true of interval
tuning as well.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


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> From: <cswearingen@daigger.com>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 10/13/2003 10:52:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Pitch Raise, was: Standard Pitch
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> It seems to me that you don't want to tune using the attack (unless the
> pianist is planning to play everything staccato) and you also don't want
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> tune to a long sustain.  I tune using a Verituner and tune so that the
> spinner stops about 1 second into the note playing.  I just try and be as
> consistent as possible this way.
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> This seems to work well for me but I'd be interested in hearing what
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> out there are doing.
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> Corte Swearingen
> Chicago
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> Hello all
> That's an interesting point made by Ron N. - "Tune on the attack phase of
> the sound, rather than the diminishing susutain" With my EDT ( the TLA
one)
> I find it quite amazing how much deviation there is between the "Attack
and
> the Sustain". This raises more questions like: Is the piano going to be
> more
> in tune when tuned on the "Attack" than on the "Sustain". And: Does it
> matter how "Hard" you hit the note when tuning - and does it make any
> difference? I tune Very Hard in order that the pianists, reps etc. can't
> knock it out of tune. I only use one rubber wedge in Grands (one Papps in
> Uprights) and only use the EDT in the first twelve notes of tuning,
> checking
> at the first opportunity the 3rds,4ths,5ths and subsequently the 8ves,
> 10ths
> and double 8ves. I also find in some pianos that the 10ths beat rate slows
> down suddenly as it starts getting into the bass covered string area. If I
> try to increase the beat rate to continue the slow decrease in beats, as
> found in the "metal" section, then the 8ve. is out. I regularly fine tune
> within 50 minutes on a piano only seen twice a year and within 30minutes
on
> a school piano seen three times a year (once a Term - "Semester"?)
> ps: It makes no difference if the Upright is "Over-Damped" or
"Underdamped"
> to the time it takes to tune.
> Regards to all
> Michael G (UK)
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