Out of tune(probably an argument, here)

[JIMRPT@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/05/04 7:04:26 PM, A440A@aol.com writes:


<<"tampered unison">>.........I LOVE IT!!!  :-)

<< What I was referring to in my 
original post was the sound of unisons that were possibly out by 2-4 cents 
each. >>

and.....
<<It is 
amazing how much latitude there is in perception. >>

Yeah I know what you meant Ed..... I was just replying to Vinny's "out of 
tune" comments. In any event I agree with your thesis on 'detuned unisons'????

 Back in my first days as an outside tuner...this was back when I tuned the 
way I did because that was "how it was done"..... and didn't know a cent from a 
beat from a dogs notion:)..... I had a customer who swore I had ruined her 
piano by tuning it!!!! Well I went back and checked it...everything seemed OK 
save a little loosness...so I retouched all the unisons and she screamed louder 
that it sounded awful and dead.........remembering that my Uncle Smitty had 
told me that some people get used to hearing their piano out of tune and didn't 
like an "in tune sound"...I went back over all the tenor/treble and detuned 
one string of each unison...she loved it! and I tuned her piano that way for 
aprox fifteen years until she passed away.....................Maybe that is why 
some of the ole Blues recordings sound the way they do...because the players 
weren't used to playing on tuned thingees????? and maybe couldn't play the same 
ona tuned piano??? :-)
Jim Bryant (FL)