<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wow,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What a post andré !! it is really clear.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quentin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>