ETD's

[Mary Smith]

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Lawrence,

Thank you for that clear and concise comparison. Could you share with 
us the time it takes you to do a good, solid tuning with each of 
these ETD's? That is, do any of them take noticeably longer than 
another? Thanks.

Mary Smith
UT-Austin


>Dave-
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>I've used SATs (I, II and III) since 1987, and am a 1-year user of 
>CyberTuner on Pocket PC here at CCM.  But last winter I bought a 
>Verituner, and continue to be amazed at how integrated the octaves 
>are.  If the goal is a really smooth, controllable tuning, I think 
>the VT is the best product I've tried.  It has a short but steep 
>initial learning curve, and is not lightweight.  One battery charge 
>will certainly get me through a day's tuning.
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>The CyberTuner is much more visually interesting, and the pitch 
>raise mode gives good results for 1-pass tunings of pianos I've 
>previously tuned.  Running on a Pocket PC, I can usually get 2 
>tunings before the battery warning comes on.  You need some sort of 
>battery extender pack to make it viable in the field.  And a Pocket 
>PC is definitely geared for a young person's eyesight (I need my 
>reading glasses).
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>The SATs are extremely durable, and with 2-4 weeks between battery 
>charges, win that contest hands-down.  They are very reliable, and 
>probably the best instrument for measuring and research.  But they 
>construct a tuning from 2 partials each of 3 notes; the CyberTuner 
>uses multiple partials from 5 or 6 notes, automatically recorded, 
>but then tunes following only one set of partials at a time; the 
>Verituner automatically uses multiple partials from every note in 
>the first 7 octaves in constructing the tuning and also the readout 
>is amalgamating several of the partials of the note as it is being 
>tuned.  A graph of a Verituner tuning is not smooth, but the aural 
>result sure is.
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>My 1200 cents (x 7+1/3) worth.
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>Lawrence Becker, RPT
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>College-Conservatory of Music
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>University of Cincinnati
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Forman [mailto:dforman@rider.edu]
>Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 11:59 AM
>To: caut@ptg.org
>Subject: ETD's
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>Caut,
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>I'm considering buying a new tuner, and I'm looking for advice. I'm 
>looking at the SAT, Cybertuner, and Verituner. What are your 
>experiences with these, which do you prefer, and why. I've used an 
>SAT I for 12 years, and I'm wondering if the newer devices do give a 
>better tuning.
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>Dave Forman
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>Westminster Choir College of Rider University


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