Male 1: Also about the piano that does not go out of tune quickly.
Male 2: I did not actually know that.
[piano note]
Male 1: So once again, we will get a little cadence out of it.
[piano notes]
Now, the F1 still is just a little sharper. It is just trifle.
Male 2: So, it will be a dots in task for me to [voice overlap]
Male 1: In here, I like to head off. We are going to the pitch roll slightly.
[Piano note]
Male 2: Oh. Actually, yes. And, today is subtle. If it was being fried, I would not have not to…
Male 1: Those two are about the same note. It is likely faster.
Male 2: The upper one is faster, right?
Male 1: That one is still just slightly faster.
Male 2: Okay. Obviously, I cannot hear what I think of it.
Male 1: We will just start your foot to like one and two and three and four and… [piano note]
Male 2: Okay.
Male 1: Now, I will keep my hand off. You know how it got faster? So, let us find a challenge to getting rid of that thing.
Male 2: So, you have the…
Male 1: I have to go beyond where I need to go because I actually did tune the piano whole. But now, I have to. Do you feel it faster.
Male 2: I never thought of it. It is like, you have heard anybody like the first higher and low and not by the way you have thought of.
Male 1: You can do it that way too but this is by far the most accurate. And it is pretty critically, you get this ought of pretty they are. Well, you cannot be setting a tempo which you will see here in a moment and I cannot disagree. You are working almost entirely with beat. And for the most part, I would say that piano tuning is working with beats but there does come a point particularly tuning in a treble where on starts to expand the octave a little bit as you go up. They should be somewhat sort of distorted but it should be enough so that you are taking in to accommodate the harmonicity of the piano and it gives a little bit of sparkle. Because as I was saying, what we talked here is test if it goes sharper as you go up. And on this low effort example, we always told them to just pull up and go right off the end of the piano.
So, if I were to tune, just bang on the octaves all the way up, then [piano note] those two notes would really not sound quite right. This note, we cannot decide that it is good because it is not quite coming out to the corresponding harmonic to that note. So, that is one rationale for stretching the octaves. It just generally sounds a little variant and it gives you an illusion of having a more sustained power. It is very much of a psychoacoustical thing rather than a mere physical thing. It is a bit like a good chef pointing at you. There are electronic tuners of course and they can do a very good job. It is a good chief to use a device which base all the tuning two out of three or it is going to do it by takes.
The electronic tuner actually was initially designed as a scientific instrument and also as an aide for somebody like myself. Let us say that I am going on an auditorium. I am going to have a tuning on a nice Steinway or losing doors for a concert. I can go in there with my electronic tuner and tune the piano orally, that is by ear. As I count down like a chart using the electronic tuner, so I can go back is setting out and his little keys are on stage bashing and crashing. Noticing how noisy it is, I can pull out my tuner, set up may chart, get pretty much very, very close tuning to what I have done in the first place.
Now, if you take an electronic and you just hold the dials and set to zero and you use it to tune all pianos, that way, you are going to tend to get an incredible lot less to tune. You are not going to get the most of that piano.
So, I have used electronic tuners. Basically, I find it quicker to do it by ear and I am generally pretty satisfied with results. So, there are times when if I were to take readings from an electronic tuner, it might be somewhat odd but I still have tuned a certain sparkle that would not be there otherwise. So, that is not always a thing because your ear is not accurate and a good piano technician will – you can kind of work with that. And basically, he is creating illusions of things that really are not there. And really, what I used to working worth is nothing about electronic tuner too because it only measure the mean frequency of a note. But with a piano tuner, when they are working their balancing the harmonics against each other which is rather a different thing. So, that is the fundamental between using a cultivated ear to do your tuning and using an electronic tuner.
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