Clean unisons

[Richard Brekne]

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Hi Linda.

We get quickly into this buisness of how each human perceives "in tuneness"
when we run into such situations as you describe. You have to hold on to
your own beliefs basically, keeping and open mind of course as life takes
you different places. However, learning to tune specifically for a
particular customers tastes is a real challange and potentially a big eye
opener. If you decide to experiment with unisons a bit for this particular
fellow, be conservative. Often the slightest change can make a much bigger
difference then one might expect. A "beat rate" in unisons of perhaps a 1/5
bps might end up being way to much in the end.

Tell the guy that any such "customized" tuning requires of him that he
invests the time and money to work with you over several tunings before he
can expect that you or any other tuner can adequately adjust standard
tuning practice for his particular tastes. This can be done, but you first
have to go through a process of learning to "speak the same language" as it
were.

Linda Stråhle wrote:

> Hello Dear List, I had a fun complaint on a tuning today, that it was too
> clean.I discussed it with a person who is not a tuner but has been in the
> recording business for a very long time. So I tried to understand what he
> meant and it was the unisons. We also discussed temperament and strech.
> He had heard several of my tunings. It is in a recordingstudio and I tune
> there one or two times every week. So I wanted to take the critic
> seriousely.The instrument is a Bosendorfer grand, I don´t remember the
> model but it is 220 or 230 cm. Two years old, and in resonably good
> shape. ( lucky lucky me who tunes this instrument!!)After listening to
> the CD and the instrument I could see his point. But I did not agree that
> is was too clean, I just thought it sounded good. I have always followed
> the idea that I try to tune as "clean" as possible. To do the best I can
> with every note. To make it stand still. Can one tune to "clean"?This is
> my question:-Are there any techniques for tuning colourful unisons, or
> wide unisons?? Should I just leave them a little moving?? ( Or not think
> about this at all, and just do my way..? )  curious, Linda
> StråhleMalmoSweden ps. I tune with fork.

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway


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