Mock tuning test ??

[Billbrpt@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 11/3/99 6:18:24 AM Pacific Standard Time, rscott@wwnet.net 
(Robert Scott) writes:

<<  So the de-tuning offsets 
 in cents are:
 
 C1: SNIP!!!  >>

AHEM!!!  I guess the Freedom of Information act may apply but these figures 
were supposed to be confidential.  The reason is that if the Examinee *knows* 
what the detuning values were, it would be a simple matter to simply find the 
value for the note with the ETD, reverse the sign and the correct value would 
be known.  And this, of course, would be cheating.

I suppose also however, that such a scheme would actually result in a failing 
score because the piano is detuned rather quickly and with no attempt at 
making it stable.  The same person, using the ETD's electronically calculated 
program, such as an FAC program, would generally produce a tuning that would 
score 100%.

Only someone with a non-programmable ETD might be foolish enough to attempt 
such a scheme.  Even if that person were to succeed somehow by using this 
information, the Exam would most likely be failed on some other count.  If 
not the pitch, first two octaves aurally or the stability, it would be the 
unisons.

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin