---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 12:10 AM 1/31/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Just finished restringing a piano and thought I'd take the opportunity to >check out the Moore temperament. I must admit that it is quite to my >liking as far as these go. It offers enough variation in color from key >to key but the differences are understated with none of the remote keys >too harsh for my ear. Quite nice really. Thanks Jon Page and Ron Koval. > >David Love I tuned this Temperament again yesterday for a vocalist an his newly rebuilt B right from S&S NY (first tuning). When I offered it to him he said that he was familiar with Well Temperaments and liked them. I have used the stretch proportion posted by Ron Koval since he posted it, thanks Ron. This tuning scheme is more in line with the way I tune aurally. When I first received the VT, the tunings sounded too sterile. Although very nice, just didn't have that 'organic' feel to them. I have since become use to it. But having done few WT tunings I can now discern the difference from ET and will offer non-ET to more customers. I think it will really go over well with a choral performing organization here. I have never been a staunch advocate of ET, didn't care one way or the other; it's just that I didn't like to tune so much as to learn a new temperament scheme. The ease offered by electronics has changed that. I actually don't dread tuning now. I can now fully appreciate the use of an ETD. Not only in the stress reduction aspects but the versatility. The way it has reduced stress is in two ways. One is the mental concentration and the other is decibel reduction. When tuning aurally, two notes are played together, repeatedly. Perception is called upon to discern the proper interval. This can tax your head particularly on some pianos. The volume is an attack on your ears. When tuning with an ETD, one note is played. The machine decides where the note goes and two notes are only played together for interval verification. So the only perception brought to bear is on verification and the db level plummets with only one note being driven to stability. Even tuning unisons with false beats is easy by matching the cents deviation for each wire and then maybe aurally phase them out if necessary. I also discovered that I had been tuning the last few notes extremely sharp having rounded 50 a few years ago. The Verituner has kept me from breaking strings on C88, should have bought one years ago. Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/93/36/2c/20/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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