[pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises; forearm smash

[William Truitt]

"while the rapid fire thing is useful everywhere, I find it even more
dramatically useful tuning unisons, with less time between key strokes than
you can do with intervals"

And the more false beats a piano has, particularly as you climb the treble,
the more useful this technique becomes. You still can hear everything you
need in that half second to put that unison in its best place, and you don't
have to drown in garbage.

Will Truitt


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Andersen
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:35 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises;
forearm smash

> Yea, it's a zone of sorts, but I'll stick with describing the approach and
let the Andersen kid burn the incense. That *is* incense, right Dave?  <G>

Sorry to be late---Verizon erased our household, our TV, internet, and
phones from their records sometime Friday. Sweet. Finally back up just now.

Absolutely. Incense made of the freshest herbs, taking the greatest care,
highest quality standards----artisan incense. Bubba. :---)

DA



On Nov 5, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

> On 11/5/2010 3:41 PM, Marcel Carey wrote:
> 
>> And Ron, I agree with you that you can tune an octave and you don't have
>> to listen to it for 3 seconds. The moment you play both notes, you can
>> hear what's happening. And if you have your hand on the lever and move
>> it, you'll find the sweet spot faster than if you try all these tests
>> and argue with your conscience and try to make the octave more perfect
>> that it can ever be.
> 
> That's pretty much my point, and while you're pecking away on the keys
moving the pin, you get instant and much more richly detailed and immediate
feedback information on what is actually happening among the hammer, pin,
and string, than you will tuning into the decay. It also settles things as
you go, without pounding.
> 
> 
>> There are conflicting harmonics in an octave, you
>> can't have them all perfect.
> 
> Actually, while the rapid fire thing is useful everywhere, I find it even
more dramatically useful tuning unisons, with less time between key strokes
than you can do with intervals.
> 
> The thing that most amazes the people who actually try this is that after
the initial strangeness of it, they report not feeling like they're hurrying
at all, yet the tunings get both faster and easier. Yea, it's a zone of
sorts, but I'll stick with describing the approach and let the Andersen kid
burn the incense. That *is* incense, right Dave?  <G>
> 
> Ron N