---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 4/27/01 5:49:22 PM Central Daylight Time, hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu (Conrad Hoffsommer) writes: > Bill, > > At 09:38 04/27/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > >I know all too well what you are talking about. The rebuilding questions > >aside, the Steinway service manual's procedure for tuning is a recipe for > >Reverse Well. > > I looked through my old Steinway service manual (~1980?), and all I find > are regulation procedures, etc. - no tuning instructions. I am curious as > to what the NY tuning instructions are. One of my mentors mentioned that > he had gotten tuning advice while attending a NY factory seminar many moons > ago. > > Could you give us the recipe? > It was printed in the Journal several years ago. I know who wrote it but I won't say because he is a friend and I respect him otherwise. I think it was written and printed in the early '90's. The reason I say it is a "recipe for Reverse Well" is because it is lacking in sufficient detail to really effect a good ET. Some of it is simply inaccurate. As I recall it relied mostly on tuning 4ths and 5ths and was not very specific about Rapidly Beating Interval checks. Granted, a very skilled tuner can still do a good ET this way but most people will make the error of getting 5ths too pure or even on the wide side. This will produce uneven 3rds, in a fast-slow-fast pattern (beginning with F3-A3), the reverse of a good, Well-Tempered tuning. Somewhere along the way, things just don't quite work out but time's a wastin' and who'd know the difference anyway? To a person who is full of the company line of B.S., that is good enough. It's ET if it was tuned aurally by a Steinway man, end of discussion. Historical or other types of temperaments are not discussed *chez* Steinway because, as everyone already knows, "No artist ever asked for that" (and better not, either). Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/03/e2/0d/e1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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