seanadams;291122 Wrote: > OT: > > I've never tuned a piano but... doesn't it rely on lower frequency > hearing - the beat tone between the fork and the instrument?
Yep. Except sometimes you listen for beats between upper partials rather than the fundamentals. Typically, you'll be listening to beats between fundamentals only while setting the initial bearing octave. A more acute test of hearing comes with the "stretching" that one does of the upper and lower octaves which one has to do to account for the enharmonicity of the lower strings. This is where the black-art stuff comes in, and it's a matter of taste (and hearing) as to how flat to make the bass and how sharp to make the treble. In that case, you can be listening way up the list of partials to find a match or, more often, a compromise. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46271 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
