ETD Unisons was something else

[jolly roger]

Hi Don and Richard,
                               When talking about this level of fine (
micro,Don's word) tuning. Voicing and tuning go hand in glove. Phasing,
travel and string level enter the picture.
Roger


At 08:43 AM 3/21/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>
>We were talking about unisons, not octave width. If the Octave is "where"
>you want it then I doubt that doing a "cleaner" unison will affect that. 
>
>Find a piano with hammers that give a "very" glassy hard sound. I believe
>you will discover that for the unison on such an instrument to sound well
>it will rest on a "knife" edge. I.E. the least change and the unison is no
>longer satisfactory.
>
>Now voice that hammer and the "tolerance" for the "width" of the unison
>will be much more forgiving. 
>
>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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