[pianotech] Q & A Roundtable

[Susan Kline]

On 1/29/2011 10:06 AM, Dean May wrote:
> ETD's actually bear witness to this. The pitch will only hold steady for the
> first half second. So if you are trying to line up some partials into the
> decay it is all over the place.
One can, however, listen for timbre deep into the decay -- after all, in 
music,
some notes last that long. Also, if I think I've got a good unison, and 
I listen
for a second, and the note "turns over" I don't like it and try to get 
rid of it.

I suppose one could say that "stopping the lights" on all three strings 
would
prevent that from happening, but it would take a lot longer than tuning one
string digitally and doing the unison by ear, which seems to be the common
practice.

YMMV

Susan
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