Jim Coleman's Remarks; "The Great Tune-Off"

[Barrie Heaton]

In article <961020141756_1480857458@emout06.mail.aol.com>,
TunerJeff@aol.com writes
>     I do find that after finishing a tuning, and striking a large & friendly
>chord, the freshly tuned piano often seems to have an enormous ...well...
>strength to it's sound... and often carries a corresponding increase in
>sustain. Don't you? I have always been taught, and understood, that this is
>partially due to the idea that the strings, being in tune, actually
>re-inforce each other's vibrations. Wouldn't this argue well for the
>'conservative' theory? And signify some truth towards the notion that the
>opposite (...destructive interference rather than constructive, as it 'twere)
>might well follow?
>
>Thanks for your time,
>Jeffrey T. Hickey, RPT
>Oregon Coast Piano Services
>TunerJeff @ aol.com
Hi Jeffrey,

That's quite an interesting theory you have there.  do you know of any
experiments which have been carried out to confirm this theory, which on
face value seems extremely plauseable.  Not to say that it matters to us
as tuners which is correct tuning correct octaves or slightly stretched
octaves, its what the customer requests.  I must admit none of my
customers have actually requested me to tune the octaves any different
than what I have been doing in the past, however, on the other hand if
they don't know any different I don't suppose they would ask any rode.

Regards,

Barrie.




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