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Piano Tuning<br />
Learn to<br />
Quattro ascolti<br />
* Listen differently to notes played and to<br />
pick out and work with component<br />
within the overall sound<br />
* Recognise basic musical intervals and<br />
apply them to tuning a complete<br />
instrument, including octaves and<br />
unisons<br />
* Use tools efficiently and accurately<br />
* Set a particular pitch and tune a<br />
complete piano from that single note<br />
* Tune quickly and accurately<br />
Course content<br />
* Beats and beat rates<br />
* ‘Chipping-up’<br />
* The components of the ‘Strung Back’<br />
* Equal temperature: the basics<br />
* Listening techniques<br />
* 4ths and 5th<br />
* Pythagoras’s comma<br />
* ‘Rough tuning’<br />
* Tools and tool usage<br />
* Tuning the bass<br />
* Tuning the treble<br />
* Unisons<br />
* Techniques of tuning a piano (principally upright<br />
pianos)<br />
* Octaves<br />
* Tuning at speed<br />
* Setting the pin<br />
* Setting the pitch<br />
* Standards of accuracy<br />
* Tuning stability