Soft blows

[William R. Monroe]

It seems people are talking past each other on this one.  I think that yes,
Andre said that the high partials are a distraction during tuning so hard
blows should not be used to listen to your tuning.  However, if you use soft
blows to tune, you are there.  Regardless if you then choose to use a hard
blow to check for stability.  If using this hard blow to check for stability
somehow jeopardized the tuning, then as soon as the artist came on stage and
played the first  ff  chord or whatever, the tuning would be equally
jeopardized.  I think it's clear there can be no credence to the assertion
that a loud blow used for testing stability, or whatever, will somehow
sacrifice your tuning.  Just don't listen with loud blows.

William R. Monroe
Madison, WI
Assoc.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenneetah" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Soft blows


> At 10:28 PM +0200 10/29/04, Quentin Codevelle wrote:
> >but Andre told us that the firm blow was exciting the higher partials.
> >It seems that we can't tune "including" lower partials if we tune
> >with firm blows.
> >Listening with soft blows won't change the facts that only the
> >higher partials have been excited during the tuning process!
> >
> >Am I wrong? Did I understand something wrong?
>
> If I understood him correctly, high partials simply constituted noise
> and were a distraction from the business of tuning, to be avoided.
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