Tuning stability and efficiency

[David Ilvedson]

When I went to school, we tuned unisons 1 hour a day for 3 months.   That is where you begin tuning, imho...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "David Boyce" <David at piano.plus.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 8/19/2008 12:52:06 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning stability and efficiency


>In his weighty tome Theory and Practice of Piano Tuning. A manual on the 
>art, techniques and theory, Dr. Brian Capleton observes on Page 298:

>" Tuning a "muted scale", in which a strip of felt is inserted between the 
>trichords, is a helpful part of the learning process, because it allows the 
>student to concentrate on tempering issues without the complication of 
>tuning unisons. It also allows the student to begin tackling tempering 
>intervals and tuning a scale, even before mastering unison tuning. Tuning of 
>the scale professionally, however, should ALWAYS be done by using a wedge, 
>completing the unisons note by note, as scale construction proceeds.  The 
>drawback of this, for the learner, is that it requires excellent unsion 
>tuning skills as a pre-requisite. Any poorly tuned unison trichord will have 
>its movement or weakness inherited by every tempered interval of which it is 
>a member. It will especially show up in the perfect fifths".

>That's his observation, anyway!

>Best,

>David.