[pianotech] "new" tuning check

[David Ilvedson]

You got the check!

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: wimblees at aol.com
To: Pianotech at PTG.org
Received: 10/29/2009 6:46:55 PM
Subject: [pianotech] "new" tuning check



>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