<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>RE: Tuning</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class="hmmessage"> <div>It makes absolutely no difference which octave you set for your initial temperament octave EXCEPT for these two little-bitty issues:</div> <div> </div> <div>1. The only way to absolutely guarantee an A440 tuning is to start with A4 at 440 Hz. Using a C fork will get it close enough, most of the time. So unless you are going to accompany an oboist, the C octave is fine.</div> <div> </div> <div>2. Your proposed temperament is kinda high. It will be very hard to hear/judge the faster-beating intervals (3rds and 6ths) going up that high.</div> <div> </div> <div>3. Whatever you choose, your first tuned note must be the exact note of your fork or other pitch source. Do not, for example, use a C3 fork to tune C4 directly, else you'll be tuning to a second partial and your C4 will be slightly sharp and your C3 will end up slightly flat, etc.</div> <div> </div> <div>4. To get a really nice temperament that will spread well over the whole piano, it's a good idea to consider what happens at and just below the tenor break, inharmonicitywise. Your C4-C5 idea is a long way from the break and you might not like the way octaves end up in that area--which is, by the way, the part of the piano where most of the left-hand stuff occurs in playing church hymns, for example.<br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/></div> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "A E" <eve_ane@hotmail.co.uk> </eve_ane@hotmail.co.uk><br/>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br/>Received: 5/5/2008 4:14:47 PM<br/>Subject: Tuning<br/><br/> <div align="left">Hi,<br/> <br/>I've got  a question concerning tuning, my piano is a strange one it was made in Ukraine about 15-20 years ago, and has recieved alot of abuse, including being moved over the atlantic, and being dropped... Strangely enough, soundboard remained in tact, but I'm having issues tuning it, it's a 42inch console upright. I was thinking of trying out tuning in the C4-C5 for temperament instead of F3-F4. Does anyone have any experience trying this out?<br/> <br/>Sincerely,<br/>Alicia<br/><br/></div> <hr/>Invite your Facebook friends to Messenger! <a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000010ukm/direct/01/" target="_new">Get Started! </a> </div><a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000010ukm/direct/01/" target="_new"> </a> </body> </html>