Unisons - how clean?

[Kevin E. Ramsey RPT]

My personal answer to this is: As clean as you can get them. On quite a few
pianos, especially uprights, you will have some notes which are not
absolutely clean sounding, and therefore a perfectly clean tone is not
really possible. No amount of string seating seems to help. In that case, I
usually do the best I can without making myself ill, then I see if there are
any voicing tricks I can use to mitigate the offensive notes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Woodrow, John (Parramatta)" <John.Woodrow@pil.com.au>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:01 AM
Subject: Unisons - how clean?


> List,
> Situation: A home tuning, on an average quality upright, aiming to be
> completed in 1 hour.  Piano tuned every 12 months.
>
> We probably mostly agree that the goal should be to tune razor sharp
perfect
> unisons.  I say mostly because I have seen it mentioned here than some
> believe that unisons should not be razor sharp but have some 'depth'.
> Anyhow, leaving that debate to one side, for the home tuning situation
> described, I am interested in what others consider to be a definition of
> acceptable unisons.
>
> Do you consider anything less than perfect unisons unacceptable, or do you
> consider that while perfection is the goal, the situation, cost and time
> dictates that something less than concert level perfection is acceptable
> from a customer perspective.  If less than perfect is acceptable, how
would
> you define that standard?
>
> This is not a customer problem, just evaluating my own standards.
> Appreciate opinions.
>
> Regards,
> John Woodrow ICPTG
>
>