My objective is to ALWAYS tune unisons as perfect as possible. That means NO beats, or as beatless as possible. period. Terry Peterson Los Angeles, CA Associate Member, PTG >From: "John M. Formsma" <jformsma@dixie-net.com> >Subject: RE: Clean unisons >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 22:11:32 -0500 >From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf >Of JIMRPT@AOL.COM ><<Notes can't be "too clean". >But "clean" notes can be very lifeless. >A unison which is very very slightly off, perhaps on just one string, will >have more presence and sustain than one which is 'dead on'. Played one note >at a time this should be no problem but if the combinations of notes, as in >a >chord, are all 'dead on' than the overall perception of the chord will >likewise be more Lifeless than a chord where all the notes were not 'dead >on' >but just a tiny-tiny bit out.>> > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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