ETD Unisons was something else

[Farrell]

Yes, one string at a time in the very high treble on pianos with lots of
false beats. What do you mean "find a coupled string unison"? What is that?

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: ETD Unisons was something else


> 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.
> >
>
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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