[pianotech] do you listen to higher partials?

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Zoe,

I prefer to refer to them as harmonics, but anyway...

If you are playing individual notes; partials are produced.
If you are playing intervals; coincident partials are produced.
If your hearing is adequate; you are hearing those partials.
If you wish to tune aurally, using a system of interval checks, you must listen for specific ones.  Usually, you should be listening for the lowest coincident one.
The more critically you can listen and evaluate, the better you will tune.

Is this what you were asking or is my obfuscation factor still high? 

BTW, since the unison interval has ALL harmonics/partials coincident, and false beats "occasionally" occur, you may have to juggle ALL simultaneously. 
... listening to some and ignoring others until it is the least bad. ;-{

Have you a mentor?  Can/have/will you be going to chapter meetings/seminars/conventions to take tuning lessons/tutoring? 

Conrad Hoffsommer




> From: yiddishtangofever at shaw.ca
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 20:10:13 -0700
> Subject: [pianotech] do you listen to higher partials?
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As a student technician- one that is learning to set the temperament- I am
> wondering when you choose, or not, to listen to the higher partials.
> (does my question even make sense?)
> 
> Thanks a million
> Zoe
> 
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