Thoughts for Newbies was RE: Spinet

John M. Formsma john@formsmapiano.com
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:25:05 -0600


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Alan,

 

Fine post!

 

Wanted to comment on one thing, "As a new tuner you must not quickly assume
that every hard-to-tune unison is a result of false beats (wild strings).
Almost any unison can be made acceptable, if not good, with careful tweaking
and solid pin/string settling. In other words, don't give up too easily
here, either."

 

I'll add that if the octave is bad, it also makes the unison bad. Some of
the "falseness" in a unison comes from its octave being too flat or too
sharp. With most spinets, you have to listen extra carefully for the correct
octave placement (and everything else, really). Tuning spinets is great
training  to make you a better tuner.

 

John Formsma


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