Cracking the unisons

[pianotune05@comcast.net]

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Ok, so what exactly are we saying in this post Susan? on and on and on...:)
Marshall 
ps what is MHO, or is it HMO or planned provider? :)

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From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org> 

> At 10:13 PM 1/5/2006 -0800, you wrote: 
> >Sometimes I don't hear the 1 
> >cent error, especially in upper octaves. 
> 
> Me either, and there, I think, lies an opportunity. 
> 
> Consider the "errors" which a tuning must accommodate, 
> both in the tempering of intervals and in the inharmonicity 
> and difficult timbre unevenness inherent in all pianos, 
> especially those which are -- less than perfect. 
> 
> But it's all less than perfect. 
> 
> We can nudge everything, because there's a margin of 
> error in our hearing, and in that of even our keen-eared 
> customers. We can rob a little here, and put it over 
> there, and (for example) get rid of that one nasty 
> fourth where there's that break between the wound and 
> unwound tenor. Never mind that an octave may compress 
> a little, and some fast-beating intervals wouldn't 
> measure up quite according to Hoyle. 
> 
> Be glad that we don't have to pay attention only to 
> what an electronic machine tells us. Instead, we get 
> to go to the source, the sound itself, and impose our 
> value judgments onto it. Why do people who tune with 
> an ETD do the unisons without it? Because that fudge 
> factor works in our favor, giving us control of tone 
> quality in a way which "exact" frequency control 
> doesn't. 
> 
> Truth be told, I think that a lot of aural tuning, 
> especially by people like Virgil, incorporates "errors" 
> a lot bigger (MUCH bigger) than one cent, in the 
> service of the whole musical sound. 
> 
> Just MHO. 
> 
> ssssssssnnn 
> 
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