David and all, I had a lady who complained that my tuning was too dull. What she wanted were unisons which were slightly off. I gave her a choice of one, two or three beats per second and she chose the two beats per second. I slowed them down in the tenor section and speeded them up a bit in the treble. What a strange feeling it was to tune like that! When I got finished, she said, "It sounds worse but it's better. Do you know what I mean?" I wasn't sure I did but she was a happy customer. When I played some chords on the piano it sounded strange but not really wild. I could understand somebody preferring that sound, at least for popular music. Ken Burton "Doctor Piano" Calgary Alberta On Sat, 17 May 1997, 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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