Jerry Hunt wrote: > Thanks for all of the great advice. FWIW, I thought > I'd add a little background on what prompted the > question. Jerry, IMHO, if you are doing floor tunings for a dealer, you can rest assured that these new pianos are moving around on you even as you attempt to set a temperament. Better to get that piano rough tuned quickly to some pitch (usually works out best to tune a little sharp as that's where they come in the door at) and then try to refine the tuning. Unless the coils have to be knocked down which can lower the pitch a semi-tone or more) If you don't believe me, just watch an ETD tuner go thru a piano. You will be amazed at how the notes previously set go askew when you tune further up and down the keyboard. Hasn't got a thing to do with your technique of setting strings/pins, temperament or witchcraft. You're simply redistributing and either adding or subtracting force to the soundboard unevenly as you tune. It's so true: You can't tune a piano unless it's in tune :-) Quite frankly, I follow tuners all the time who either don't care or are too lazy to get a piano stabilized at pitch before attempting a fine tuning. You see it in those pianos that the treble is way flat, yet the progression of the tuning up out of the temperament seems really smooth. What usually happens is they attempt to slam dunk the whole keyboard with just one pass and consequently wind up with a real smooth progression of intervals that smoothly drops quite flat. Shoddy work I say. Oh, well, thats fodder for another topic I'm sure and the mail police won't like it if I stray too far afield. Joseph Alkana RPT
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