----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Moffatt <moffattr@cadvision.com> > >Regulating tone, can only > precede an in depth ability to tune and regulate the action at concert > level. > IMHO. > > Bob Moffatt Bob, I think with the amazingly good ETDs available today, the ability to tune at "concert level" is not the issue. I recall those incredible learning experiences I had in regulating and voicing classes with Fred Drasche and Joe Bisceglie, neither of whom ever learned to tune and who freely admitted it. Regulating tone doesn't necessarily mean that one is regulating at concert level. Sometimes hammers produce a sound that almost renders the piano incapable of being tuned. This is when pre-voicing with steam or needles will get rid of some of those unwanted partials that make the piano scream to the tuner's ears. Try it on a 30 year old spinet for example. Using this kind of tone regulating before tuning does make it easier to achieve a good tuning on that piano. Of course, achieving a concert level tone for a concert piano requires that the action first be regulated to its maximum capability, strings leveled, etc. If the hammer does not rise in its correct arc and strike the string in its correct tangent, tone will always be adversely effected. However, the piano does not need to be at "concert tune" to regulate. Many master regulators like Fred and Joe had the amazing ability to hear through the tuning to the actual sound the hammers produced. Heaven knows I am certainly not in their league, but I "regulate tone" all the time without the piano being tuned at "concert level." Depends on what kind of tone regulating I'm doing. Gina
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