ETD Unisons was something else

[Richard Brekne]

Farrell wrote:

> 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?

Grin.. hmmmm probably poorly worded on my part... also when you tune unisons by
ear you have two strings sounding at once.  Using the ETD to tune unisons in
this same fashion, instead of muting off so that only one string sounds at a
time.

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