<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi Linda      Perhaps the "too clean" unisons are actually a piano related thing since the piano determine the clarity of unisons attainable.    I've always suspected that the celebrated characteristic NY Steinway sound is a natural uneasy tension in the tone caused from just the right amount of fault, (false strings, inharmonicity, duplexes, damping deficiencies, etc.).  Without sin, a piano sounds too pure,  lacking soul, electronic, dead, too even, too predictable.   Is perfect really what we love to hear and play?   Can a piano be too perfect?  We have photographs yet still love paintings. -Mike   Linda Stråhle wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> Hello Dear List, I had a fun complaint on a tuning today, that it was too clean.I discussed it with a person who is not a tuner but has been in the recording business for a very long time. So I tried to understand what he meant and it was the unisons. We also discussed temperament and strech. He had heard several of my tunings. It is in a recordingstudio and I tune there one or two times every week. So I wanted to take the critic seriousely.The instrument is a Bosendorfer grand, I don´t remember the model but it is 220 or 230 cm. Two years old, and in resonably good shape. ( lucky lucky me who tunes this instrument!!)After listening to the CD and the instrument I could see his point. But I did not agree that is was too clean, I just thought it sounded good. I have always followed the idea that I try to tune as "clean" as possible. To do the best I can with every note. To make it stand still. Can one tune to "clean"?This is my question:-Are there any techniques for tuning colourful unisons, or wide unisons?? Should I just leave them a little moving?? ( Or not think about this at all, and just do my way..? )  curious, Linda StråhleMalmoSweden ps. I tune with fork.</blockquote> </body> </html>