<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi Linda. We get quickly into this buisness of how each human perceives "in tuneness" when we run into such situations as you describe. You have to hold on to your own beliefs basically, keeping and open mind of course as life takes you different places. However, learning to tune specifically for a particular customers tastes is a real challange and potentially a big eye opener. If you decide to experiment with unisons a bit for this particular fellow, be conservative. Often the slightest change can make a much bigger difference then one might expect. A "beat rate" in unisons of perhaps a 1/5 bps might end up being way to much in the end. Tell the guy that any such "customized" tuning requires of him that he invests the time and money to work with you over several tunings before he can expect that you or any other tuner can adequately adjust standard tuning practice for his particular tastes. This can be done, but you first have to go through a process of learning to "speak the same language" as it were. 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> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway   </body> </html>