Unison tuning, was for those on the fence about hearing protection..

[David Andersen]

I've tuned right, center, left since I went stripless 8 years ago.  
The beauty of tuning all three as you go, and making micro-small 3- 
string pitch
changes to idealize your temperament: it's like a mini-pitch raise on  
each note---you're really settling in the pins and settling the  
string down along its entire length the more you sculpt and idealize  
the temperament, and your foundation is firm, stable, pleasing, and  
trustworthy.

Increased pin sensitivity and awareness equal more stability. A  
relaxed-muscle, martial-arts-type test blow is also crucial; both  
together create, with a gift for tuning, something beautifully full  
and stable with maximum sustain.
xoDavid A.


On Mar 22, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Don wrote:

> Hi Fenton,
>
> Given enough climate change unisons will smear too. All the left  
> strings
> will go the same direction. Perhaps that's the key to what Dr.  
> Coleman is
> doing with the unisons as you go tuning left string first? I know  
> Ed Foote
> does the outside strings first too--but I don't know if he does the  
> left
> string first or not.
>
> At 08:49 AM 3/21/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>>   I agree that firm test blows are not necessary with  proper hammer
>> technique. But, I don't think it has much to do with pitch   
>> fluctuation,
>> that would be climate changes. After the piano has dropped in   
>> pitch, if it
>> still has stable unisons, I think the tuner has done his  job. Fenton
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
> Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat
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