This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A4 is wound? I assume you mean A3 is wound. Using a Verituner, as of = late, this is not a problem. When I tuned aurally, I would tune first = the double octave, A2, A3, A4 so that I like how they sounded. Then I = would fill in with a series of contiguous thirds at 4:5 ratio until a = got a nice progression through the two octaves. Then I would fill in = the rest. It works fairly well and the narrower double octave that the = scale on these types of pianos dictates makes the progression through = the transition smoother. I admit that recently on such pianos I am = inclined to use a well temperament. A fairly mild one such as Wendell = light, Coleman 11 or the Moore. It seems to help these types of pianos. = Then, of course, the ET system I suggested above is out the window. = The Verituner makes all of this very easy no matter which way you decide = to go. David Love ----- Original Message -----=20 From: tune4u@earthlink.net=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: January 18, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: Temperaments & Wound Strings Here's a general interest question. If you use an F-F temperament (probably most of us) as opposed to, = say, the A-A small European, you run into many pianos with wound strings = in your temperament. I just tune them as if they were not, going for the same mid-piano = 5ths and even-progressing 3rds, etc., as usual. But then I tune this Winter & Co. spinet excuse-the-expression piano = where five of the temperament notes are wound bichords and three of them = are on the bass bridge. I think I make a good temperament on this piano but just got to = wondering how you much-experienced folks, both aural and ETD, handle = this situation. Comments please. Alan Barnard Salem, MO P.S. Would it make sense to learn and practice an A-A temperament just = for such pianos? (Although in this case even A4 is a wound string!) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fe/83/03/93/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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