There's Nothing Like a Freshly Tuned Piano
Ahhhhh....
The warmer wet spring weather always plays havoc on my piano tuning, so I just got it tuned yesterday.
A Bach Fugue sounds horrible on an untuned piano-- I guess because the harmonies are so precise and often there are only one or two "voices" that need to be perfectly in tuned.
Music with very dense with chords, on the other hand, can sound okay on a untuned piano-- particularly if the sustain pedal is used heavily...
The warmer wet spring weather always plays havoc on my piano tuning, so I just got it tuned yesterday.
A Bach Fugue sounds horrible on an untuned piano-- I guess because the harmonies are so precise and often there are only one or two "voices" that need to be perfectly in tuned.
Music with very dense with chords, on the other hand, can sound okay on a untuned piano-- particularly if the sustain pedal is used heavily...
posted by spooked at 12:22 PM
3 Comments:
did you know that A=442hz now?
the standard used to be A=440hz but it was changed several years ago. 442hz is somewhere between A and A# when A=440hz. the idea behind the change is that A=442hz sounds brighter and therefore more cheerful and uplifting than A=440hz.
anyway, i still tune my various devices (washtub bass, jews harp, jug, 2 string fiddle, etc) to A=440hz.
ha.
And some Ragtime arguably sounds even better on my rickety, 75 year old, slightly out of tune POS.
BTW, I don't want to avoid the nuke discussion. I just haven't decided whether the pros or cons carry more weight.
Forgot to mention to ha that the Beatles tuned their instruments slightly above the standard 40 years ago. Ahead of their time in so many ways.
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