ETD Unisons was something else

[Richard Brekne]

So Terry, do you tune one string at a time and then check with ear, or do you
use the machine to find a coupled sting unison that you can live with ?

Farrell wrote:

> I do almost all unisons by ear. Once in a while I will check a really wierd
> bass string unison with the AccuTuner. Where I do use it for unisons
> sometimes is on noisy pianos in the very high treble. Especially little junk
> spinets and consoles - anything with lots of false beats in the high
> treble - I will tune unisons by ear until it seems that it doesn't make any
> difference quite where I set it - then when I check with the AccuTuner, I
> will usually see that I can get it closer with the machine than by ear. But
> if I have a nice clean piano, I go all the way from bottom to top tuning
> unisons by ear.
>

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