I'd like to try the honky-tonk unisons on a 100 or 200-cent-flat piano sometime. I got a 1982 recording of a couple songs that have a piano like that. At 07:19 AM 11/24/00 -0500, you wrote: >Stephen, > >My hunch is most technicians have never done it, so you may get limited >responses. It does make me curious enough to try it on my own piano, >just for fun. I'll probably never get around to it. If the honky-tonk >sound is basically what most of us would consider out-of-tune unisons, >then pick a method for a sound the client likes and go with that. The >benefit of detuning to emulate this sound, rather than just having an >out-of-tune piano (some would call them one and the same), is that you >can plan for a consistency across the whole keyboard. > >Regards, Clyde > >Stephen Airy wrote: > > > One honky-tonk sound I like is to detune the 2-string > > unisons about 25-35c, and other unisons at varying > > degrees (A-440 beating about 3bps for example), beat > > rates of unisons in top half-octave equaling > > fundamental frequencies of lowest few notes. I have a > > recording of a piano that was about 150c flat and > > several unisons were out. I'm curious: How far out > > do you guys like to put the unisons to get the > > honky-tonk sound? I like about 30c in the bass, 15c > > in the midrange and treble, with some notes out more > > than others, but none out more than 50c. > > > > --- A440A@AOL.COM wrote: > > > Wally writes: > > > >>But my idea was to tune one of the trichords DOWN > > > >>slightly. No one has taken me up on the offer yet, > > > so I haven't actually > > > done it.> > > > > > > Greetings, > > > As I understand it, there exist particular > > > relationships between > > > frequencies of impelling force and a resonant > > > period. > > > If the frequency of an applied force is higher > > > than the resonant period > > > of an object, the two will be out of phase with one > > > another. If the > > > frequency is lower than the resonant period, they > > > will be in phase, though > > > not necessarily in sync. I treated the altered > > > string of the unison as the > > > impelling force in regards to the two that were > > > tuned as mathematically close > > > to one another as possible. I was hoping to create > > > a slight cancelling > > > effect within the unison, the aim of which was to > > > produce a rather shrill, > > > percussive sound. I think it worked, but perhaps > > > will try the opposite, as > > > Wally suggested, next time. Why not, "Out of tune" > > > is out of tune, no? > > > Which is why I tuned the tonk slightly sharp. > > > Regards, > > > Ed Foote > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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