Description
Basic Piano Tuning Manual – Learn how to tune your own piano by ear.
The chapters are set up to show the specific step-by-step instructions you can follow to tune your piano by ear.
Chapters (Step-by-step procedure)
1. General Concepts
2. Mute the Piano (Mute piano)
3. Tuning A4. (Tune A4)
4. The First Octave, A3-A4. (Tune A3 from A4)
5. Tuning the Temperament. (Tune all the notes from F3 to F4)
6. Octaves. (Tune the octaves above and below the temperament)
7. Unisons (Remove mutes and tune the unisons)
8. What Next?
Appendices.
These describe theory conceots for people interested to learn more.
They have been put at the end of the book so the procedure is easier to follow.
A. Harmonic Series
B. Theory of tuning A4 with the F2 check note
C. How to hear beating partials more easily
D. Stability
E. Hammer Technique
F. Equal Temperament
G. Cycle of Fifths
H. Check Notes
J. P4/P5 Temperament Sequence (Music notation)
K. Interval Sizes Worksheet
L. Basic Tuning Procedure
M. Mock Exam
N. Skeleton Procedures
O. Tuning Hammer Stability Worksheet
P. Mark Cerisano’s Temperament Sequence
Z. Octave Templates
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