ETD Unisons was something else

Farrell mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:08:31 -0500


How does a change in barometric pressure cause a change in tuning?

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <drose@dlcwest.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: ETD Unisons was something else


> Hi Roger,
>
> Of course it can't last for you are "micro tuning" the least change in
> temperature, humidity or barometric pressure will cause such "tweaking" to
> become history.
>
> At 05:23 PM 3/20/01 -0600, you wrote:
> > Fudging the tuning to
> >hide or minimize unison beats, never seems to last.
> >But it often sounds better by ear at the time of tuning, when tuned by
ear.
> >Given that the pitch is constantly on the move, the ETD seems to give
> >better results.
> >Roger
>
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>
> Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
>
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>
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