----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin E. Ramsey To: Pianotech Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:52 PM Subject: Re: accutuner as tuning fork What I meant to say is, "Push on the bridge pin, to one side......" : Sorry for the bad writing... Pick out a string that has a false beat, and take a soft metal tool and push it to the side while you play it. The false beat will either go away, or slow down quite a bit. Kevin E. Ramsey ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew & Rebeca Anderson To: oleg-i@noos.fr ; Pianotech Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:30 PM Subject: RE: accutuner as tuning fork Now that's a cool trick to play on a doubtful customer! As I'm taking tuning as a profession more seriously now (not just my wife's grand) I'm finding that most of my new customers haven't had a tech in years. Pitch raises are what I do most of. They can hear the difference. The piano would sound dull, but after tuning it would be "alive". Speaking of "alive," my mother-in-law has a 6' DH-Baldwin that is distractingly "alive" when tuned. I mean it rings a little too much for my taste. I've been debating whether I should revise how I stretch it, or if I need to adjust some of the aliquots. It has a lot of false beats too. Next time I'll insist on removing all the pictures and sculptures so I can go after those. I'm wondering if braiding might be called for or if a little twist against the wire to put a tiny kink in it might help to detune them a little. Andrew Anderson Las Cruces, NM At 01:24 AM 1/9/2004 +0100, you wrote: >I noticed that almost all customers can appreciate the difference in >tone quality between 1 string at 435 and the other at 440 -42. just >the spectra, not even the pitch ! > >best regards. Isaac > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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