Clean unisons

[Roy Ulrich]

Kristinn, What in the "world" are you talking about with animals seeing
well, walking well, etc. Am I suffering from too long a day at the office?
Or is this an inside Swedish language thing? (Maybe too many Seinfeld
re-runs....) Thanks,

Roy Ulrich
Up in the trees in Northern Minnesota (ya sure you betcha) USA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kristinn Leifsson" <istuner@islandia.is>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Clean unisons


> 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.
>