David, you actually set the temperament with only one mute? Jason || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter . piano tuning/regulation/repair bellevue, wa . 425 562 4127 . cell 425 831 1561 orcas island . 360 376 2799 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Andersen" <bigda@gte.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:32 PM Subject: Re: Tuning styles with octaves > on 6/11/04 7:36 AM, ibetuner at ibetuner@sbcglobal.net wrote: > > > Please tell us more about open string tuning. Only 2 years new in the > > business and still finding out what I don't know but getting better > > hopefully. > > > > Never heard of open string tuning till your post. > > It's how everybody tuned until relatively recently---one mute, a tuning > hammer, and that's it, tuning unisons as you go, using the wetware that the > Creator gave ya. It requires you to have a pretty good aural idea of where > you're going, but with practice, it's the most fun and, just as importantly, > the most stable and eventually beautiful & musical way to tune---IMHO. > > My method of setting temperament is kind of unusual as well---I base it on a > kind of "ladder" of fourths between F3 and F4, with the tonic starting at F3 > and moving up a half step on each step of the ladder; each fourth is beating > sharp in the same slow, lazy roll---usually between 1 & 2.5 bps---and the > fifths are just a frog hair flat---no beat speed really discernible. > > When you start to listen to open, stock-still unisons, and learn that each > pin movement subtly affects the pitch of the 3-string note, precision and > magic start to happen, if your ears are any good and you like to tune. > > Hope this helps... > David Andersen > Malibu, CA > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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