Sounds good to me Ron. And I echo you desire for a more informational approach to doing these. Course the difficulty remains in defining the criteria for judging a tuning. Seems actually like an easy task to me tho... simply sample each note after the tuning is done, recording partial information for partials 1-12 (or as high up the partial ladder as the treble strings allow), then pump the data into a number cruncher to reveal all relavant beat rates.... Nothing could be clearer...:) Regardless of how its done... a fair and impartial and objective criteria for assesment of the tunings is the most important hitch me thinks. But I am with you all the way ! RicB Ron Koval wrote: > Hi all- > > I haven't heard much about a tuneoff recently. What I'd like to see is less > competitive and more informational. If we accept that the 'best' tuners get > pretty even results, no matter if aural or machine calculated, I think it > would be interesting to see what the 'baseline' tunings of each of the > popular machines are. I suspect that Mr. Coleman, when tuning by machine > only, uses his SAT in an aural manner; that is, playing a note while the > machine is set to another note. This would allow the 'reading' of > intervals, though no intervals are being played while tuning. > > SOT, SAT 1,2,3, tunelab, tunelab pro, RCT, Verituner, Peterson, Korg.... > What kind of tunings do they calculate on their own on average pianos? That > way, someone who is shopping for an EDT would be able to see what each > machine does just with its built in stretches or custom calculations. > > It seems that all the literature says something like "let your ear be the > final authority", so let's see how close these things come, without checks, > and what, if any differences there are between the tuning curves calculated > by each company. > > How 'bout it? > > Ron Koval > Chicagoland > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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