It scarcely gets out of tune at all, and then, for the most part, the three unisons are tuned at once.
The strings of fine brass or iron wire are in groups of two to five unisons to each note; the vibrating lengths of the strings are determined by means of two bridges.
Take care that your temperament contains no bad chords, and after you are all through, see that all tones have stood, and that you have left no bad unisons or octaves.
This term is often used and generally means that the instrument is out of tune, and especially that the unisons are out.
If you have left imperfect unisons in your temperament, rendering it difficult to tune octaves by them, it will be well to replace your continuous mute so as to tune from a single string.
You might go over the entire key-board now and correct all the unisons if the scale is yet fairly good.
Setting the mutes in bringing up the unisons in the temperament is exceedingly simple.
When inserted in place 1, between unisons B and C, it will mute the first string of C; so the first string of the trio to tune is always the third.
If the piano is very bad, you may have to bring up the unisons roughly, inuring this portion of the instrument to the increased tension, when you may again place your continuous mute and set your temperament with more certainty.
Imperfect octaves or unisons in the bass of a piano give rise to the use of this term.
After the unisons are finished in the temperament, which string is tuned next, if we go immediately from the temperament to the over-strung bass?
The first, serving for the lower register, is of the well-known trapezoid shape and lies over the keyboards; it has 30 wire strings in pairs of unisons corresponding to the 15 lowest keys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unisons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
