"Bloom"

[Isaac OLEG SIMANOT]

What I understand is that you hear the character of the tuner the way he
streches the tuning.

Stay narrow if you are servicing the piano tone, as it will then be in tune
with itself.

Use your stretch, or some kind of pre determined stretch, and you install
another point of whew in the tuning, and that is possible to the point the
ears are mystified permanently while hearing the music.

All depend of the result wanted and the personality of the tuner of course.

And of course the pianist like one sort or another.

Isaac OLEG

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]De la part
> de David Love
> Envoyé : lundi 18 mars 2002 23:32
> À : pianotech@ptg.org
> Objet : Re: "Bloom"
>
>
> Joe:
>
> It's interesting that you mention that.  I have sometimes wondered whether
> the attractiveness of HT's isn't in part driven by the recent
> tendencies, in
> my opinion, to overstretch pianos.  I have heard people on this list talk
> about stretching the temperament octave to 1 bps.  This widening of the
> octave will create more rapid beating thirds and contribute to a
> more active
> quality in keys where it may not be desirable.  I have also heard people
> mention pushing the stretch numbers in the last octaves 70 cents
> or so.   My
> experience is that there is a fine line between enough stretch to get the
> extremes of the piano to sound right and so much that the quality of the
> 3rds becomes less pleasing.  In many things there is an attitude that if
> some is good, more is better.  I think stretching reaches a point of
> diminishing returns, and does so more quickly than is often practiced.
>
> David Love
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: March 18, 2002 10:20 AM
> Subject: "Bloom"
>
>
> > IMHO, try to tune the piano as narrow as possible, rather than expanding
> the
> > intervals as is normally done.
> > Regards,
> > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> >
> >
>
>