David: I agree 100%. Make unisons as clear as possible. But it is obvious that designers of electronic pianos think "unisons" have to be a little unclean to be more appealing to the general public, or to sound more like a real piano. Try holding down a note on an electric piano and hear what I mean. Oh I know in normal playing the note is sustained for a very short time, perhaps too short most of the time to hear the waver, But if I left a piano that poorly tuned I would be in trouble with a few customers. I think all electronic pianos are made that way. If I am wrong I am sure I will hear about it as I would hope to. Travis David M. Porritt wrote: > > List: > > At times, I hear a thread about making unisons less than perfect to give > more sustain, body, color etc. I have been a piano tech for 24 years > and I have never done a unison I thought was TOO clean. I have never > tried to make anything but as precise a unison as I could. I have also > never heard anyone else's unison that was too clean. > > Where did this idea come from? It seems totally foreign to me. If > clean is good, then there is no such thing as "too clean." Right?!?! > > dave > > _______________________________________________ > > David M. Porritt, RPT > Meadows School of the Arts > Southern Methodist University > Dallas, Texas > _______________________________________________
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