This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Charles Neuman=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 12:40 PM Subject: spinet octaves I don't mean to start a spinet-bashing session, but I just want to see = if it's me or the piano: When tuning a spinet, I find it hard to make nice clean octaves. (I = use an ETD to tune, but I also do everything aurally as I tune, for = practice.) The other day, the customer was sitting in the same room as me while I tuned. I was embarassed that I was tuning their piano and couldn't get = a clean-sounding octave! So I moved on, worried about what the final = result would sound like. She didn't seem to notice anything wrong. I'm still = not sure if I did any good to the piano or not. So do I need more practice, or am I doing what can be done? Note: I = don't seem to have this problem on a Steinway B. By the way, those Baldwin spinets have a surprisingly good sound for = their size, I have to admit. I always emphasize that to the customer, and = they seem proud. I still would rather not be near one, but for what they = are, they seem not so bad. Charles Neuman PTG Assoc, Long Island - Nassau _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives If the unclean octaves are up in the treble, you might try seating = strings on the bridge, in spite of the recent arguments to the contrary. = You don't always have to take the action out -- you can often reach = thru with a long screwdriver, just rest it on the string just above the = bridge pin and bump the end of the handle with your palm. Sometimes = cleans up the tone. As others have said, spinets aren't going to sound like larger = pianos or tune up as nicely. There's a lot of inharmonicity and the = bass/tenor break often requires a lot of compromising. The human ear = may give more musical results than an ETD here. =20 Yes the Baldwin Acrosonics are probably the best spinets around, = although Yamahas were pretty decent (haven't been made for 25 years or = more, though). Don't despair too much, though -- just get it as best you can. I = tuned a 6-foot Steinert grand today that had a few strings with beats in = them, that is, beats in just one string of some of the unisons. Seating = strings didn't help. Not sure what caused them, but I just got them to = sound as good as they could. =20 --David Nereson, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/61/1d/0e/e5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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