About a year after I got started in the tuning business, I got a customer with a spinet player that just loved the honky-tonk sound. Of course, never having to do this before, I searching the net and found a slick "procedure" if you will: Single string bass - right on pitch BI-string bass - left string on - then alternating notes along with this, the right string flat 5 cents then sharp 5 cents. So if O is the left string, it would be: O- O+ O- O+ ........... Tri-strings - middle on, left flat by 5 and right sharp by 5. Sounded pretty good to me - as well as the customer approved. Duaine On 02/22/2011 11:34 PM, Tom Gorley wrote: > I am a proponent of the unevenness of a honky tonk tuning. It's very > nature is varying degrees of out-of tune-ness. I would tune the piano > and then let down one string by ear to the desired sound (some were > raised). I don't see why identical out-of tune-ness is required. When > I did one for an opera group, they listened to and discussed if the > sound was aromatic enough for the particular desired effect. Let your > ear be your guide. You don't need a PDA for this part. > > ---Tom Gorley > > > On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Barbara Richmond passed on this question > from Robin Stevens > >> With the advent of PDAs nowadays I am wondering how many cents sharp >> or flat the third string is changed? It would made it more even if I >> tune the piano first then change RCT setting for that detuned string >> to - +10 or whatever. > -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 11 years
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