Hi Jason, Bill tunes exceptionally wide octaves--at least at the extreme treble of the instrument. He has claimed on the list a figure of 75 cents stretch. Usually such octaves would not be sweet--but very powerful. Sweet is a subjective term. At 01:24 PM 9/15/02 -0700, you wrote: >>"" fifth he is actually tuning something slightly contracted (and the BbF >>slightly expanded). I suspect that the tuning tends to sound good because >>the M3s on C, G, D, and F are all sweeter than ET, and that when he tunes >>the rest of the piano he compensates, adjusts, fixes to reduce the >>imbalances, and that his method of tuning octaves is probably so sweet >>that it alone makes the piano sing. >> > > || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| > jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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