Cracking the unisons

[pianolover 88]

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IMHO: In my humble opinion
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary
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JWTWDSAAQUTSA!: Just write the whole damn sentence and quit using these 
stupid Abbreviations already!

Terry Peterson



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Dean May" <deanmay@pianorebuilders.com>
Reply-To: deanmay@pianorebuilders.com, Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject: RE: Cracking the unisons
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:34:15 -0500

MHO: my humble opinion
IMHO: In my humble opinion
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary
DAMHIK: Don't ask me how I know
FWIW: for what its worth
BTW: By the way
Ssssnnnn: Susan wanting to take a nap  ;-)

There are others.

Dean
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PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272
Terre Haute IN  47802

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of pianotune05@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:40 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Cracking the unisons

Ok, so what exactly are we saying in this post Susan? on and on and
on...:)
Marshall
ps what is MHO, or is it HMO or planned provider? :)

-------------- Original message --------------
From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>

 > At 10:13 PM 1/5/2006 -0800, you wrote:
 > >Sometimes I don't hear the 1
 > >cent error, especially in upper octaves.
 >
 > Me either, and there, I think, lies an opportunity.
 >
 > Consider the "errors" which a tuning must accommodate,
 > both in the tempering of intervals and in the inharmonicity
 > and difficult timbre unevenness inherent in all pianos,
 > especially those which are -- less than perfect.
 >
 > But it's all less than perfect.
 >
 > We can nudge everything, because there's a margin of
 > error in our hearing, and in that of even our keen-eared
 > customers. We can rob a little here, and put it over
 > there, and (for example) get rid of that one nasty
 > fourth ! where there's that break between the wound and
 > unwound tenor. Never mind that an octave may compress
 > a little, and some fast-beating intervals wouldn't
 > measure up quite according to Hoyle.
 >
 > Be glad that we don't have to pay attention only to
 > what an electronic machine tells us. Instead, we get
 > to go to the source, the sound itself, and impose our
 > value judgments onto it. Why do people who tune with
 > an ETD do the unisons without it? Because that fudge
 > factor works in our favor, giving us control of tone
 > quality in a way which "exact" frequency control
 > doesn't.
 >
 > Truth be told, I think that a lot of aural tuning,
 > especially by people like Virgil, incorporates "errors"
 > a lot bigger (MUCH bigger) than one cent, in the
 > service of the whole musical sound.
 >
 > Just MHO.
 >
 > ssssssssnnn
 >
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