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Old 4th August 2004   #24
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My father was a piano tuner and as Paulieg say's unisons should be tunned beatless. If you have beats in the unisons the piano will not sing and will sound "thin". Again as Paulieg mentions the scale has to be carefully tempered and tunnings on different piano's vary. A friend of mine for whom my father used to tune had always had problems with a dull sounding octave, my father cured this by pulling it marginally sharp. We are not talking sharp so that it sounded out of tune, just fractionally beat sharp. No two piano's are quite the same.


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