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<DIV align=left>The only problem with strip muting is if your=
making any kind of a change in pitch...3 cents or=
more. Those beautifully set bearings are going to=
drift while your bringing in the unisons. As Andre=
has mentioned his Verituner forces him to SEE how=
much the pitch changes during a tuning. </DIV>
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<DIV align=left>David Ilvedson</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original message=
----------------------------------------><BR>From: Quentin=
Codevelle <<A=
href="mailto:quentin.codevelle@tiscali.fr">quentin.codevelle@tis=
cali.fr</A>><BR>To: pianotech <<A=
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR>Rec=
eived: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:17:39 +0200<BR>Subject: How We sense :=
"a total and complete ear opener".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Wow,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What a post andré !! it is really=
clear.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My teacher who was a Concert=
Yamaha tech used to compare the coarse sounding unison as=
two parallell lines never crossing, going further and=
further.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was taught really early=
(since my 2nd year of apprenticeship) to control my left hand as=
much as possible, banging normally, to always hit=
the key with the same power, keeping the hand in the=
same position, even always pressing the key with the same=
finger in order to produce the same tone on every=
note.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's why I like to put a felt=
strip on all the medium and treble, make the temperament, tune=
octaves, and finally tune the unisons one by one, concentrating=
only on the tone. When we tune like that, we can=
focus easier than when we tune the octave (muting the=
left string) and then, tuning the middle and finally the right=
string.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This way of muting all the=
piano helped me to get a "rythm" to tune octaves, and=
at last the unissons, because we can make a serial work of=
octave, and unissons.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And concentrate on one thing at a=
time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BTW,why the 4ths with pure 5ths can=
drive us nuts? Does it create a problem to make a properly=
balanced tuning?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quentin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>