Tuning styles with octaves

[jason kanter]

David, you actually set the temperament with only one mute?

Jason
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andersen" <bigda@gte.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning styles with octaves


> on 6/11/04 7:36 AM, ibetuner at ibetuner@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> > Please tell us more about open string tuning.  Only 2 years new in the
> > business and still finding out what I don't know but getting better
> > hopefully.
> >
> > Never heard of open string tuning till your post.
>
> It's how everybody tuned until relatively recently---one mute, a tuning
> hammer, and that's it, tuning unisons as you go, using the wetware that
the
> Creator gave ya. It requires you to have a pretty good aural idea of where
> you're going, but with practice, it's the most fun and, just as
importantly,
> the most stable and eventually beautiful & musical way to tune---IMHO.
>
> My method of setting temperament is kind of unusual as well---I base it on
a
> kind of "ladder" of fourths between F3 and F4, with the tonic starting at
F3
> and moving up a half step on each step of the ladder; each fourth is
beating
> sharp in the same slow, lazy roll---usually between 1 & 2.5 bps---and the
> fifths are just a frog hair flat---no beat speed really discernible.
>
> When you start to listen to open, stock-still unisons, and learn that each
> pin movement subtly affects the pitch of the 3-string note, precision and
> magic start to happen, if your ears are any good and you like to tune.
>
> Hope this helps...
> David Andersen
> Malibu, CA
>
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