Hi Newton et al, I guess first we have to define the word *sweet*. I originally took it to mean *a very pleasant* sound. Newton is taking the *tack* that the *biggest* sonority is a *sweet* sound. I do tune quite differently for a Concert hall than in a private home. But I prefer the lower sonority of my *sweet* tuning for homes. This also extends to voicing, and clearly we all have *different* ideas about tone color! My favorite example for clients is that I dislike cherry pie. It doesn't mean cherry pie is *bad*--just that it is *not* to my particular taste! At 11:43 AM 6/24/98 -0400, you wrote: >Leaving aside the issues of temperament and unisons the remaining issue >is octaves and in tuning octaves on a piano there is indeed a "sweet >spot". > >It is initially noticable in the lower (bot not lowest) where an octave >acquires a larger tone than at any other point of expansion. Another >place to learn to listen for this "power point" is tuning octaves up >from the temperament octave around C5 or so. > >It requires delicate and precise control of the stretch of the octave so >find this one single point. Every piano and every octave has this >unique "sweet spot", "power point" that once one learns what to listen >for can be found and then one searches for it during each tuning. > >On a decently scaled instrument this will almost inevitably lead one to >stack two, three and sometimes four octaves with not beats. > >I believe this type of tuning lends itself to the most power the piano >can generate. > >Compared to the SAT FAC tunings I like to strecht my 4th 5th and 6th >octaves a little more and my 7th octave less to attain this tuning. The >bass is just about right only needing a compensation for uneven scaling. > >I describe this as introducing an expanded beat into the octave that is >so long it does not produce a discernable beat but has and maintains the >rising charactoristic of a beat.. > > Newton > > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts" drose@dlcwest.com http://www.dlcwest.com/~drose/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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