[pianotech] Octaves & Unions

Steve Fujan sjfujan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 13:20:56 MST 2011


Duane,
If you find an octave out after your aural check, what do you do to correct
it?
Thanks,
Steve
(Not baiting, Just curious)


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> wrote:

> On 02/04/2011 02:02 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >     Let's put it this way, with Cybertuner, you tune from A0 to A88 - one
> >     note at a time.
> >
> >     In your example, I don't tune anything to anything because Cybertuner
> >     has done all that checking (hearing partials, calculating stretch,
> >     calculating overpull, etc - basically all the checks you - have - to
> do
> >     aurally as - you - are tuning) in the first place and it - just -
> tells
> >     me where to put the next note going up the scale.
> >
> > So what you're telling me is that you do NOT check octaves aurally.
> > But I thought you said you did, which makes you a "Hybrid" tuner. So
> > do you check octaves aurally, or not?
> > Wim
> >
> Apparently, you did not read my other posts carefully enough.
>
> YES, I do check octaves aurally - just NOT as I go - I wait until I tune
> the WHOLE piano.
>
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