Tuned with pianoscope: Pachelbel's Canon

navindra

Hi! This is my second attempt to tune with pianoscope and record a video of the results:

This time around I used the Korg Contact Microphone CM-300. This is before I learned of the existence of PianoSens.

Thoughts on this tuning in general? Does it sound good?

The humidity dipped a little the day after my tuning so things aren't quite where I left them, including some unisons.

Last time around there was some feedback on the bass. This short arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon features a bit more of the bass notes, so I'm curious to hear what folks think now.

Frank Illenberger

navindra Good job, and thanks for the great video! Why did you use the contact microphone and not the internal mic? Was it noisy when you tuned the instrument?

AlexHutor

navindra Nice sound, thank you. The cleaner the piano is tuned, the more you can hear the smallest imperfections. I hear the A5 should sound a little higher

navindra

Frank Illenberger Thanks Frank!

The internal mic works very well except I generally have trouble with single strings in the high treble, then sometimes I have inconsistent readings. I thought I'd try the contact microphone to help with consistency... and yes, sometimes the house is definitely noisy!

Johnymac

Very nice playing navindra and the tuning sounds real nice. Are you thinking and getting the PianoSens from Steven. I have not asked him but I wonder how it would handle the copper wound string and especially if it would stay in place on a upright.

navindra

Johnymac Thanks! Yes, I'm considering PianoSens but here are my upfront concerns:

I'm already juggling moving the mutes, moving the hammer, now I would have to coordinate moving YET another thing from peg to peg. It doesn't matter much that it has a fancy slide... it's YET another thing to move and it is wired. It will be especially annoying to have to position both the mutes and the slide in certain registers. Perhaps making it wireless should be a priority.
It comes bundled with an audio interface that I don't need because I already have a perfectly fine PreSonus. What I need is wireless not another wired USB interface.
The price is stratospheric for what it is. Excluding the audio interface could have at least helped bring the price under $500. Guitar pickups are generally significantly cheaper and handle 6 strings.

AlexHutor Thanks! I'm not sure if that's something that just naturally deviated due to the humidity or if my tuning curve needs to be adjusted.