This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment This item keeps coming up once or twice a year. I have to say= that I have never tuned a unison that I thought was too clean. = I've always thought that a unison that was too clean was like a= girl that is too pretty, or a food that is too good. I've also never heard anyone else's unison that I thought was too= clean. I know there are those who disagree and that's fine. I have just= never done it myself. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@mail.smu.edu ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: David Andersen <bigda@gte.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:27:23 -0700 Subject: Re: Octave Tuning There is also some suggestion that a truely "pure" unison gives the= piano a rather "dead" sound with poor sustain. I believe I have proven, at least to myself, beyond a shadow of a= doubt that exactly the opposite is true: When the unison is= =93stood stock still,=94 the sustain and resonance of that note is= increased to the maximum that is possible, given all the other= mitigating factors. Another way that concert-level tuners get= =93all there is=94 out of a piano when tuning---and a big part of= the psychoacoustic illusion that is created by a good tuning= (i.e., =93you voiced it!=94 or =93the action feels so much better=94= when all you=92ve done is tune.) Hope this helps--- David Andersen ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/9c/f4/59/dc/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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