[CAUT] Too tall!!??

[Christopher Purdy]

I agree.  I think each piano has it's own "personality".  I tune both  
pianos separately and allow them to have their own voice.

Chris


On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:32 PM, David Ilvedson wrote:

> I tune each piano as best I can and don't worry about it.   In my  
> opinion, any slight differences between notes will add to the  
> quality of sound.   Imagine if a string section was absolutely  
> playing the same pitches (not likely... '-])...IMHO.
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Received: 4/7/2010 6:32:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Too tall!!??
>
>
>
>>> Also, on another note; How do you all like to tune two pianos
>>> together?  One venue has a Baldwin D and Steinway D together, the
>>> other venue has a Steinway D and B to be tuned together on Friday
>>> (UGH!) I've done my usual for the 2 9'-ers but; Any tips on the 9'
>>> and 7' together would be great help.  I've never been happy with
>>> those two pianos together, but that's my only choice.
>
>> What I like to do is to pick the better of the two pianos, call it
>> the "master" and then roll them so I can reach both keyboards at
>> once. Sometimes both facing each other with just room for me in
>> between, sometimes at an acute angle to each other. Part way through
>> I shift one so I can reach the upper or the lower register of both at
>> once, as may be.
>
>> I put the tuning on the "master", and then I set the A and tune the
>> temperament on the lesser, then check it note by note against the
>> "master", then move outward, checking now and then. When the lesser
>> piano doesn't quite want the same pitch (tenor and bass, if the two
>> are different lengths), I just make it give in, and keep the unisons
>> between the two dead on with each other. When I'm finished, I check
>> note by note, the entire scale.
>
>> I've been very pleased by the results from doing this. If I can't
>> move one of the pianos so I can play both at once, I set the A's as
>> carefully as possible, and tune them separately as best I can, but
>> the results are usually only acceptable, not pleasing to me.
>
>> Newport's SD-10 and Steinway D are never happier than when nested
>> together, with the lid off the Baldwin. They suddenly are best buds,
>> in spite of being different, and both gather resonance from each
>> other, partly, I think, because the entire scale is exactly the  
>> same on both.
>
>> You can really tell how you're doing when a two piano piece has both
>> instruments exactly doubling each other, as happens now and then. If
>> it sounds like the unisons are as good as if it were just one piano,
>> you've aced it. ("and we are unanimous in that!")
>
>> Susan Kline
>> Newport Arts Center, Oregon State University

Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.
Registered Piano Technician
School of Music, Ohio University
Rm. 311, Robt. Glidden Hall
Athens, OH  45701
Office (740) 593-1656
Cell    (740) 590-3842
fax      (740) 593-1429
http://www.ohiou.edu/music



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