Floating Pitch/hideous to tolerable in 15 minutes

Jorgensen, Michael L jorge1ml@cmich.edu
Thu Aug 29 11:26 MDT 2002


	List,
	     When the lowest tenor note is 30 cents sharp, the bass is one or two cents sharp, A440 is 5 cents sharp.
	      Tune the lowest tenor note to the bass note an octave below.  Progress this way up through the temp octave just tuning octaves from the note below.  Check only 4ths and 5ths as they fit within the hand.  Check and correct any severe temperament problems, which often isn't  much.  Keep going up to A 4 and tune that to as close to 440 as can be without narrowing the octave much or worse getting too fast of fifth.   Above that tune only the notes adjacent to breaks and fix only bad unisons.  Sharpness in the treble can be chalked up to octave stretch. If the piano was tuned to natural stretch in the first place it won't be all that sharp.   Not great but works for emergencies. 
	-Mike Jorgensen  


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