Greg Graham wrote: > Seems like every "historic" instrument I've ever heard needs a good tuning, even after it has had one. I'm not so sure it's the tuning. For me, it's the tonal envelope, although the recorded pianos sounded to me to be tuned at different pitches. The old instruments were a much lower tensioned scale, on a much less rigid framework. They present a sort of "bwoink" impression to me. Lots of attack distortion, short attack, and short sustain. The envelope never settles into anything stable enough, long enough, to register as a specific pitch. Like steel drum tones, only not as painful. Ron N
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