Tuned the unisons of a vertical piano in a theater without a mute and without even opening the piano (time was very short) just with a finger to locate which pair of strings is not good, then hearing that defect in the 3 strings unison and correcting it. If one take care of not closing the tone while doing that, this is a very good training to tune nice unisons indeed. Tuning unisons with noise around is also interesting (!), but really tiring in the end. It help (may be because of the so called 'mask effect') to focus to the important part of the tone which is what is heard by the audience, the conductor, or other musicians. And you can also train to feel the unison energy in your finger, that oblige not to be not too hard with your playing hand (while you can have a firm touch , but without any tension remaining once the note is played (getting then in "sensitive mode") Indeed that is far from listening to coincident partials, and it is less tiring as then we can listen more naturally. Tuning was often learned with unisons tuned since the start in France, depend off the person, and the school. On a grand the left pedal can also help to tune with less mute move. Best regards Isaac OLEG "extreme" tuning ! -----Message d'origine----- De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de ibetuner Envoyé : samedi 12 juin 2004 08:35 À : Pianotech Objet : Re: Tuning styles with octaves Chris: Yeah, that's what I was talking about when I said I did open string tuning to make small corrections and use it as a time saver...the unisons had already been tuned but had gone awry and I didn't want to take time to mute them again...tests your listening skills! By the way Chris did the 2nd CD I sent you ever work...? Wayne > Wayne, > I think that what David is referring to is tuning to previously > tuned unisons, as opposed to tuning with a strip mute and then pulling in > the unisons. > > Chris _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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