Hello everyone, I am new to the Forum and my registration was prompted by my interest in the tuning of this magnificent instrument.
I have a semi-new Yamaha C6 which, however, does not satisfy me in terms of timbre and sound (the action is splendid, I have nothing to complain about regarding that).
I called a local tuner and he tuned it with A at 442hz
now I ask you: What is the ideal tuning to have a bright piano?
Thank you for your attention, you can contact me and reply to me also via email --> ilmagodellapsp@ymail.com
I would say that the brilliance of the tuning depends mainly on how it is performed. The piano is an instrument built to play at 440Hz. The voicing of the hammers affects the timbre. A well-tuned and well-voiced piano can gain in "brilliance."
It changes absolutely nothing. It is just the highest tuning fork. What makes a piano's tuning brilliant depends on the ratios and the way the octave is divided, as well as the way octaves and other intervals are brought back into the bass and treble ranges. A good tuner knows how to make the piano brilliant and cantabile. Everything must be completed by competent voicing which must not simply "soften" the hammers, but rather identify the areas of the hammer to make more or less elastic or reinforced, in order to obtain the sweetest pianissimo and the most powerful fortissimo, favoring the progressivity of sound in all its timbral qualities. Voicing is a very delicate and sometimes irreversible intervention. It must be approached with great caution and competence. If practiced poorly, one risks "killing" and making the hammers useless.
