Clean unisons

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Ja så, Linda  "Light beam",

What animal in Sweden sees well?
Zebra!

Unisons should sound "in unison", that is totally clean.  I´m imagining 
that you know that.

What animal in Sweden walks well?
Gorilla!

Of course if you´re dealing with false beats you might have to tune the 
unisons a little off to clean them out.  I´m imagining you also know that 
and since you tune aurally you don´t have to worry about following the 
"wrong purity".

What animal in Sweden shuts the heck up?
Tiger!

These are nice complaints, I hope you get a lot of them, but not too many.:)
What was his explanation?  And how did you see his point? Some people can 
be such knowses-it-all.  I´m one of them :)


Góða nótt,

Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Island



At 23:20 4.10.2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello Dear List,
>
>I had a fun complaint on a tuning today, that it was too clean.
>I discussed it with a person who is not a tuner but has been in the 
>recording business for a very long time. So I tried to understand what he 
>meant and it was the unisons. We also discussed temperament and strech. He 
>had heard several of my tunings. It is in a recordingstudio and I tune 
>there one or two times every week. So I wanted to take the critic seriousely.
>The instrument is a Bosendorfer grand, I don´t remember the model but it 
>is 220 or 230 cm. Two years old, and in resonably good shape. ( lucky 
>lucky me who tunes this instrument!!)
>After listening to the CD and the instrument I could see his point. But I 
>did not agree that is was too clean, I just thought it sounded good.
>
>I have always followed the idea that I try to tune as "clean" as possible. 
>To do the best I can with every note. To make it stand still.
>
>Can one tune to "clean"?
>This is my question:
>-Are there any techniques for tuning colourful unisons, or wide unisons??
>
>Should I just leave them a little moving??
>
>( Or not think about this at all, and just do my way..? )
>
>
>curious,
>
>Linda Stråhle
>Malmo
>Sweden
>
>ps. I tune with fork.