In the movie "The Competition" with Richard Dreyfus, a piano tuner is seen checking the tuning of a piano being used in a Van Cliburn type competition. Every note sounds right on until he gets to one unison that is so horrible that it is hard to imagine this note existing in the context of an otherwise in tune piano. He whips out a pocket size lever and pulls the string up to pitch (in a trichord unison) without any checking to see which string was low. I suppose it could have been a newly replaced string, but he would have had 2 strings to raise, except for the unlikely event that it was an individual wire tied to the hitch pin. Any way, it didn't come off as a realistic tuner situation. They probably felt that the lay persons in the audience should be able to hear the out of tune string. I think it would have played much better if the pitch deviation was small enough that the audience could'nt hear it, then being much more impressive that the tuner could hear something that they couldn't. Such is the movies. Dave Bunch Dave Bunch Piano Service Des Moines, IA http://members.aol.com/pdtek/piano.htm
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