tuning lower notes

[Bec and John]

Hi,

I have enjoyed reading everyone's response on this matter, but I just 
wanted to say I particularly appreciate the response from David 
Anderson and Ron Koval. I have been reading so many posts on this list 
about various tuning methods deliberately based on partials and I have 
never even consciously thought about them - I just tune what I think 
sounds good (overly-simplified description) :), or perhaps, the "whole 
tone" as it was put.

So it's nice to hear from others who tune in what I would say a more 
natural way. Though not to dismiss my genuine interest in hearing other 
people's tuning methods.

- John


> Ahhhh, the whole sound---the "natural note that the player hears"---
> It's so wacky that tuners say you can't tune this way, or that the only
> "real" way to tune is to listen to partials, or overtones. Your body is
> capable of integrating and processing the subtle harmonic differences
> from piano to piano and note to note or section to section in a much 
> more
> precise and nuanced way than a machine or---flame suit on---than a
> mechanistic, linear process called partial matching.  IMO.
>
> Making a piano sing is the goal of every tuner; I can do that much, 
> much
> easier listening to the whole tone---the note as the artist and 
> listener
> hear it.
>
> Best,
>
> David Andersen