question for aural tuners

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I've recently rejoined the aural tuners ranks and I find that after tuning my temperament octave plus a third I tune all the A's including A0.
>From there I make a determination on where I put the stretch.  How to balance the 10:5, 8:4, and 6:3 checks,  After that, I find running up and down the piano using fourths and fifths, consecutive Maj17's, 2 octaves and a fifth (for treble), or min 7th's with octave displacements (for bass) to zero in the octaves.




Bruce Pennignton. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Golding <jgmdpiano at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 8:07 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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