>To: pianotech@ptg.org >From: Marcel Carey <mcpiano@multi-medias.ca> >Subject: Pure 5ths tuning > >This summer I tune for a music festival for about 25 concerts. The pianos were a S&S "D" and a Yamaha CF-111. I Used the method that Jim Coleman Sr explained. I was very pleased with the results. The two pianos had what I think more personnality than before and more projection.What surprised me though was that not one musician noticed. I got good comments from one person assisting to the performance that told me that he had never heard a CF-111 that sang so nicely. The only musician I told of my tuning method was surprised to hear the difference. At rehearsal time, he just told me that when listening to the tuning he felt it had more depth but he was afraid that he would be distracted by it in concert. He just said " I hope this not so just octaves don't distract me during the concert. But I usually don't have time to listen to my playing." > >This bring me to the following: Maybe we make too much fuss for the way we try to make the tuning perfect. For me, the most important interval still is the UNISON. In a concert situation, the difference between one temperment and another wasn't so obvious, but I just couldn't have gotten away with bad unisons. > >Marcel Carey, RPT >
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