I "discovered" a "new" way to check my tuning, and want to ask if anyone else has used this method. I use this as my last check after I get done tuning the piano. For my first and second tuning, I use octaves, double octaves, octave and a third, two octaves and a third, double octaves and a fifth. But now I am doing double octaves and double octaves a 12th above the lower octave, as follows: C4, C5, E6, E7. I start at the first note in the treble, and go from there. I get a sense of what sounds "right", and when I hear the sound not right, I check which note could be the problem. Sometimes it a slight unison problem, sometimes the problem is the upper first octave, sometimes it's the lower third. I haven't been able to figure out exactly which note is off, so I have to kind of experiment. But it does leave a better overall tuning. Comments, ??? Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician 94-505 Kealakaa Str. Mililani, Oahu, HI 96789 808-349-2943 www.Bleespiano.com Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com 94-505 Kealakaa Str. Mililani, Oahu, HI 96789 808-349-2943 www.Bleespiano.com Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091029/a36b53ad/attachment.htm>
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