question for aural tuners

[Willem Blees]

Jon

A lot has to do with the quality of the piano. For good quality grands, I use the checks you do, or the two octave and a 7th. On?less quality grands and most?vertical pianos,?I mostly listen to octaves and double octaves. ?


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
808-349-2943
www.bleespiano.com
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Golding <jgmdpiano at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 4:07 pm
Subject: question for aural tuners



When tuning the last octave of the piano's bass section I would like to know people's opinions on how they get the best results. For me, I find this a tricky area to get consistently good results. Some bass strings sound dead whereas others are harsh sounding and some have lots of overtones. As well, each piano seems to have a different amount of stretch to take into consideration.? When tuning the last octave I usually check using the Maj 17th against the Maj 10th for approximate equal beating. When I play the octaves together harmonically I find that this leaves the last octave sounding too high to my ear. Any comments or suggestions? Any single partial for this area which could be helpful?
Thanks, Jon


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