Peterson tuners, how accurate?

[Richard Brekne]

SUSAN P SWEARINGEN wrote:

> I don't understand why anyone would want to mess around with a Peterson when
> you have ETD's like the Verituner that do real time multi-partial sampling.
> Sure, the Peterson is half the price of a Verituner but are you really
> saving anything when you shell out $650 for a device that can't even sample
> partials?
>

The Peterson and perhaps can be used in a fashion that instruments like the
Verituner and SAT lend themselves less readily too.  It depends largely on what
you want to use an ETD for me thinks.

Certainly if you want a device that calculates a tuning curve for you, more or
less telling you how to tune the piano then the Peterson is the weaker choice.


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Richard Brekne
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