Music, mathematics, philosophy and tuning:
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The art of piano tuning
Because piano tuning involves working with vibrating musical strings, much of it can be analyzed and described in scientific terms. This does not, however, mean that piano tuning is nothing more than an applied science. Science lays the foundations for the necessary technique, but like the artist or sculptor, the artist tuner uses technique as a tool to achieve something more than technique alone can achieve.
The tone of a piano is immensely complex, and the final polish on the tone of any instrument - the final character of the piano - is given by the tuner, through the art of tuning. This is not something that happens by chance. It happens as a natural result of years of experience and intimate practical knowledge of the inner acoustical world of piano tone.
For more on the art of piano tuning see the art of piano tuning 2
Piano tuning - the essential idea
The piano tuner technicians' area
Why are pianos tuned in equal temperament?
What makes a piano string vibrate?
In more depth:
On falseness and paradigms for the nature of piano tuning
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