Well I just moved that little Everett to a violin shop down the street where it will sit in a practice room until it sells, so it's out of my hands for the time being. Next time I'm there to tune it, I will try to get another recording. My normal method of tuning the bass on spinets is to try to get to 6:3 octaves as fast as I can, even if it means that the single octave will have a bit of a roll in it. The last octave or so I don't mind a beat or 2 in the 6:3 Octave. I figure with the high inharmonicity in these little pianos, the bass needs to be stretched as much as possible. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com> wrote: > > "I'm finishing up work on on a 1941 Everett Spinet. I thought it would be > > fun to make a recording of it!" > > > > Thanks for linking to that Ryan! Very nice. > > If you have the time, would you be willing to try an experiment? Keep the > tuning > from C4 to the top. Tuning down from there, carefully balance only three > intervals. > > 1. octave > 2. double octave > 3. octave + 5th > > Try to make all three similar "pureness" > > As you get down to the range where a guess is the best you can do, test by > adding > the double octave +5th - play all 4 notes together and then softly drop in > the lowest note > that you are tuning to see if it "hides" behind all the others being > played. > > Another recording would then be appreciated, along with your impressions of > tuning this > way and the differences from your standard spinet approach. > > thanks! > > Ron Koval > chicagoland -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110120/a49549b4/attachment.htm>
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