In a message dated 10/05/04 8:36:42 PM, john@formsmapiano.com writes: << I've got a good piano teacher with a Steinway B. She complains occasionally about some notes sounding "dead." They are the unisons perfectly in tune. But...when I tune the piano (all unisons in perfect tune), she comments about how I've "put the resonance back and it sounds really good." >> Yeah I hear you.. :-) Doesn't make sense some times but there it is.........We must remember that tuning is more of an art than a science even though some very strict principles apply. But since the pianos thingees we work on don't know those principles and tend to make the sounds they want to make we must turn into artists to get the maximum out of any given instrument. Ed spoke once of a 'palette' of tunings to use and having a larger palette gives us a broader range with which to satisfy our customers (paraphrase)............... One technique doesn't work in painting masterpieces and one technique, or pallette, doesn't work in tuning. Just imagine if Renoir had only one shade of blue and one shade of yellow to use in his painting...be pretty dull huh? :-) After all is said and done it is perception and not facts that count in whether a tuning is a 'good' one.......go figure!! :-) Jim Bryant (FL)
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