[pianotech] Q & A Roundtable

[Kent Swafford]

I am guilty as charged in taking taking well over an hour for many tunings, but, gee, I thought I had good reason...  8^)

The faster beating a unison is, the quicker you should be able to hear the beats.

The closer a unison is to "in tune" the longer you must listen to hear the (slower) beats.

So deciding how long to listen to a unison (and how long the tuning takes) may just be a matter of deciding how finely one wishes to tune.

Kent



> Tuning Efficiently
> 
> I found a few comments made by Ron Nossaman, RPT extremely interesting.
> They are:
> ". I find that tuners taking well over an hour are all dong the same thing.
>   They listen too long, and tune way too deep into the tone envelope.
>   Tuning into the decay is a waste of time and effort, I think. Pretty much
>   everything you need to hear is in the first half-second of the note. ."