Topic: Astounding warm & round sounding tuning scale from Bernhard Stopper
Today, just by accident, I ran on a site of a German piano tuner who tells, why he is now using ony the tuning scale from Bernhard Stopper any more when tuning pianos (sorry, only in German):
http://www.klaviertechnikmeister.de/Klavierstimmen.html
My quick and dirty rough translation of one of the main statement there:
"With this technique you can achieve for the first time an astonishing warm and calm sound impression, which seemed to be impossible so far with the equal temperament technique"
Here is some more background on this tuning method (again, only in German):
http://www.klaviertechnikmeister.de/Neues-Element.html
There is very interesting youtube video on this piano tuning method,
(including a really very noble and extremly pleasing sounding example of Sokolov playing Bach):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrcWplvGJY
The inventor, Bernhard Stopper, is also selling a software for tuning pianos on his homepage:
http://www.piano-stopper.de/html/tunic_onlypure.html
But fortunately, with Pianoteq it is much more easy to tune the piano. Just use an appropriate Scala (scl) file! It is within the scala tuning archive, to be downloaded from here:
http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/dow...tml#scales
Included in this archive is the file "stopper.scl", which you can directly load into Pianoteq (you don't need to install the scala software).
Try this, especially with the new Grotrian Grand instrument, it does sound even more round and warm and natural with this tuning, IMHO,
it makes the already astounding Grotrian even more pleasant and "human" (at least to my ears).