Robert W.Hohf wrote: > > I would be interested to know other's procedures for tuning two pianos > together. > > .- This is a job where the machine can really shine. You said that you tune aurally. I did the same for 25 years and last year started using the CyberTuner with the hope that I could tune faster, more accurately and with less effort. I can safely say that all this has happened, plus there have been other benefits, such as being able to measure the inharmonicity of two instruments paired for a concert which can be useful in deciding how to proceed. Two weeks ago I tuned an S & S model L with a (rebuilt, family heirloom) 6'3" Kranich and Bach and never checked one piano with the other (there wasn't time). The most important thing was to get them to sound well individually. I attended the concert and my aural-tuner ears were favorably impressed, even in the high and low extremities. Okay, maybe I got lucky and they were of similar length and inharmonicity. If I were aware of a significant difference in inharmonicity, however, then I would put in with Mr. Jim re making some compromises in the secundo piano and possibly even making compromises in the octave stretch of both if the differences were extreme. I just wanted to mention about using the machine, not to downgrade anyone's ears but sometimes a little applied science can fill in some gaps. I don't think that I can remember the mistakes I made in the first piano and put them into the second. -- Thomas A. Cole RPT Santa Cruz, CA
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