Clean unisons

[Michael Jorgensen]

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Hi Linda
     Perhaps the "too clean" unisons are actually a piano related thing
since the piano determine the clarity of unisons attainable.    I've
always suspected that the celebrated characteristic NY Steinway sound is
a natural uneasy tension in the tone caused from just the right amount
of fault, (false strings, inharmonicity, duplexes, damping deficiencies,
etc.).  Without sin, a piano sounds too pure,  lacking soul, electronic,
dead, too even, too predictable.   Is perfect really what we love to
hear and play?   Can a piano be too perfect?  We have photographs yet
still love paintings.
-Mike


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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