How We sense : "a total and complete ear opener".

[David Ilvedson]

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The only problem with strip muting is if your making any kind of=
 a change in pitch...3 cents or more.   Those beautifully set=
 bearings are going to drift while your bringing in the unisons. =
  As Andre has mentioned his Verituner forces him to SEE how much=
 the pitch changes during a tuning.   

David Ilvedson

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From: Quentin Codevelle <quentin.codevelle@tiscali.fr>
To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:17:39 +0200
Subject: How We sense : "a total and complete ear opener".

Wow,
 
What a post andr=E9 !! it is really clear.
 
My teacher who was a Concert Yamaha tech used to compare the=
 coarse sounding unison as two parallell lines never crossing,=
 going further and further.
I was taught really early (since my 2nd year of apprenticeship)=
 to control my left hand as much as possible, banging normally,=
 to always hit the key with the same power, keeping the hand in=
 the same position, even always pressing the key with the same=
 finger in order to produce the same tone on every note.
 
That's why I like to put a felt strip on all the medium and=
 treble, make the temperament, tune octaves, and finally tune the=
 unisons one by one, concentrating only on the tone. When we tune=
 like that, we can focus easier than when we tune the octave=
 (muting the left string) and then, tuning the middle and finally=
 the right string.
 
This way of muting all the piano helped me to get a "rythm" to=
 tune octaves, and at last the unissons, because we can make a=
 serial work of octave, and unissons.
And concentrate on one thing at a time.
 
BTW,why the 4ths with pure 5ths can drive us nuts? Does it create=
 a problem to make a properly balanced tuning?
 
Quentin


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