Octave Tuning

[Richard Brekne]

I agree one hundred percent. The cleaner the unison the better. And I'll 
go a step further... the cleaner the 12ths are the better the overall 
stretch of the whole tenor treble area... and for very simliar reasons 
as David claims for unisons below. You end up with a lot of coincidents 
that are so close to just that they re-enforce each other significantly. 
A very pleasing affect

Cheers
RicB



David Andersen wrote:

>                 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 “stood 
> stock still,” 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 “all there is” out of a 
> piano when tuning---and a big part of the psychoacoustic illusion that 
> is created by a good tuning (i.e., “you voiced it!” or “the action 
> feels so much better” when all you’ve done is tune.)
>
> Hope this helps---
> David Andersen