Aural Tuning- Pianos with High Inharmonicity

Greg Livingston pianotuner440 at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 6 21:18:09 MST 2007


Dear Friends,

(This is for my aural-tuning colleagues; I am three college tuitions away 
from an ETD...)

Today I struggled with a 70's Acrosonic and no matter what I did, it still 
sounded lousy. I tune aurally, using Bill Bremmer's chain (April-May 2004 
PTG Journal). Finally, I went back to my old standby, 4ths and 5ths, and got 
it sounding okay.

When you tune a PSO, do you spread the F-A third wide?  Do you set it at 7 
bps or more? Do you try to get the F-D to match the A-C#? Or do just try to 
get the octaves as beat-free as you can? How do you deal with these beasts?

My wife says I shouldn't take on any more spinets...maybe she's right...

_______________________________________
Gregory P. Livingston, Piano Tuning and Service
781-237-9178
Piano Technicians Guild, associate member
(Boston chapter)

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