Contiguous Major Thirds Accuracy?

[David Andersen]

Spot on the money, PRJ. So good it coulda come from Nossaman....<g>
DA


On Oct 25, 2008, at 2:11 PM, paulrevenkojones at aol.com wrote:

> David (Boyce)...
>
> Just a word on the contiguous 3rd's and their accuracy. However you  
> start, from F3 to A, A to C#, C# to F4, e.g., none of the first  
> settings of these pitches is precise, absolute, or unmovable, until  
> other intervals become available to refine them, at which point  
> they will become highly refined. The 2nd group of contiguous 3rd's,  
> from F#3 etc. are significantly more precise than the first group  
> since there are now more intervals from which to check. And so on.  
> I have found, however, that I can set that first group of  
> contiguous 3rd's such that, without listening to F3, I can almost  
> always get an almost "perfect" octave at F4 just by climbing the  
> contiguous 3rd's and balancing the middle 3rd correctly between the  
> two others. It depends on the piano, its scale, inharmonic  
> qualities, etc. Spinets require jiggling the intervals differently  
> from 9-footers. It all ends up "tuned", though. There is little to  
> be gained from thinking in cents! deviation in aural tuning on such  
> wildly moving intervals as 3rd's, 6th's, etc. When all is said and  
> done, a completed tuning is a completed tuning. For the several  
> micro-seconds after completion that it remains a "tuning". :-)
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 1:37 pm
> Subject: RE: Contiguous Major Thirds Accuracy?
>
> David, you wrote "When I was a strict aural tuner ....."
>
> Ah David, I bet you're not strict at all now, I bet you're just an  
> old softie at heart.....
>
> (I can kinda see you in times of yore, glaring menacingly at the  
> recalcitrant piano and its owner through your pince-nez spectacles  
> and hefting your tuning lever in a menacing manner....)
>
> Best,
>
> David.
>
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