McCullough Tuning Tutorial Introduction Welcome to the McCullough Piano Tuning Tutorial. This is the first tutorial on the internet to include a full audio demonstration of tuning, as well as the temperament I created, and techniques and opinions about tuning not found in most books or other tutorials. Whether you are new to piano tuning
It will be useful for you to understand one of the causes of the false beats phenomenon. We already know that a beat is heard when two strings are tuned with a slight difference in their frequencies. For example, a string tuned to 440Hz, set in vibration with another string tuned to 442Hz, will produce
Sound is perceived by the human ear thanks to changes in energy in air molecules. Sound is an alternating compression and rarefaction of air molecules produced by a sound source. Top, we see an illustration of a speaker, which produces changes in air pressure that are picked up by our eardrums. Then below, different ways