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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You're right, don't throw it away, Mr.
Bill. My "high end" concert work, ahem, almost always starts =
with a
quick pitch correction (those are the circumstances, unfortunately) and =
then the
strips go into the tool case. Round two is unisons as I =
go--sometimes
with strips and wedges, sometimes just with 2 wedge =
mutes. I'm afraid
I'm not a cracker... Then again, I just tune those unisons until =
they are
as clean as possible and have never thought about what partial I'm
using--or maybe it's just that I haven't thought about what partial I =
use in
such a long time that I've forgotten. Hmm...perhaps the left =
side of
my brain is gone...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan's concert hall description is very =
close to
reality. For those purists out there who think ETDs don't have =
their place
in performance situations, preparing a piano in a public =
concert hall
is <very> different from tuning in a university recital hall (the =
former
university tech in me speaks). Until I got this gig, I had never =
set a
unison using an ETD. The thought of it still scares me a =
bit.
Somehow, it just seems unnatural---and as David Love said, it takes
longer. But <longer> is better than <impossible> when
tuning amidst big noise. No matter how difficult the =
situation is
(BTW, they're not <all> awful), the final check is by ear--for my =
peace of
mind.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, =
RPT</FONT> </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=yardbird@vermontel.net =
href="mailto:yardbird@vermontel.net">william
ballard</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 06, 2006 =
9:25
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Cracking the =
unisons</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><snip></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Your article and this thread tell me it's time to toss the strip =
away.
(On a piano that's already nearly in tune, at least.)</DIV><BR>
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