How to Tune the Treble Section of a Piano

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On behalf of expertvillage.com I'm Tom Flowers of Well Tempered Piano Tuning and I'm here to talk to you about piano tuning and piano maintenance. We're going to begin tuning this piano now. We've already calc'ed a tuning for the whole piano. Unlike a piano that has six strings, this has two hundred and twenty-five and they have a different relationship than other instruments. They're called tempered. They're more distance or less distant to make all twelve keys work together. So here we are at G5, that is the fifth G on the piano. As you look at the tuner, you can see it's, the lights are moving rather rapidly counter clockwise which indicates that it's flat. I've got the center string muted, I've got it so only the center string is being heard. I'm going to pull that up. It's now quite sharp and I'm going to beat it down. Tuning is kind of done with two hands. The pressure of the tuning hammer on the pin and how hard I hit the strings. You'll hear it slowing down and normalizing and there we go. Now I'm going to just move up to the next string, next note and here we go again. Now, if all tuning was was that, it would be quite simple. But now I've got to match the other strings. Now, if I play this G, it doesn't sound very tuned. So it has a center string and a left string and a right string. I'm going to mute the right string so I can hear the left string against the center and I'm going to normalize those two and there we go. Sometimes I hit softer to listen. I want less of a mechanism noise and more of a note. When I'm hitting hard, I'm trying to disturb the string more than you will as a player so that you won't melt the tuning later on. Now I'm going to do the right string. Although that's not quite there yet, I won't perfect this at this point simply because it's going to need further work to really be up to standard.

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