tuning

[pianotune05]

Hi Ron,
This is Marshall Gisondi again. I thought I'd drop a note to say hi, and see 
if you are in need of any assistance.  s ince I'm new ot the area, and I do 
pretty well at tuning, I thought Id see if anyone outthere had a piano they 
didn't want to tune ie. an old upright, or one they didn't want to travel 
to.  I'm in Villa Park close to Lombard, Elmhurst Oak Brook.  Do you want to 
get together to share some ideas?
Marshall Gisondi
pianotune05 at comcast.net
630-833-3978
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Koval" <drwoodwind at hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 6:45 PM
Subject: tuning


> I'll 'fess up to being in the whole tone camp as well...
>
> The research I've done graphing the individual inharmonicity of groups of 
> strings in pianos has led me to believe that while listening or testing 
> for partial matches between octaves is very precise, (in a micro-sense) it 
> doesn't lead to a more musical tuning.  Again, I stress the difference 
> between precision and accuracy.  Only by using the ear in the "better or 
> worse" mode to find the best (or least bad!) placement for the octaves 
> will lead to the most musical tuning of that particular instrument. (more 
> accurate placement for octave stretch in the macro-sense.)
>
> I think the aural community has responded to the early precision of 
> machine-tunings to come up with methods that match the temperament 
> smoothness - all the while training the technicans' ear to expect, test 
> and appreciate that particular approach - at the expense of beautifully 
> matching single, double and triple octaves.
>
> Ron Koval
> Chicagoland
>
>