Question About Setting Octaves in the High Treble

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings, 

         In the upper two octaves you can check if the 5ths are alittle less 
than clean. This always helps me. I tune the top octave by checking 5ths and 
playing arpeggios.

Julia Gottshall
Reading. PA 

In a message dated 5/4/2006 7:47:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, rfinley at rcn.com 
writes:
I am learning to tune the piano by ear and have a question about tuning 
octaves in the high treble and performing the tests on them. Lower down the piano 
and for an octave or two above the temperament octave I use a 3rd-10th test to 
check whether the beat rate of the 10th is the same as or slightly faster than 
the 3rd, to provide an octave that is correctly stretched. When I go higher 
in pitch I use a 3rd-17th test so that I can still hear the beats and do the 
comparison. The problem I am having is that when I go still higher, say in the 
final octave, I can hear the beats of the third but I can't hear the beats of 
the 17th, or any ripple at all. I can't therefore compare the two beats rates 
and check the octave. The higher note also dies away quicker so it makes it 
even more difficult. Is there any special technique I should use to be able to 
hear the beat rate of the 17th so that I can check the higher octaves? Thank you 
very much for your help. 

Robert Finley
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