Aural versus ETD tuning training

[David M. Porritt]

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********

On 12/26/2002 at 1:19 AM Richard Brekne wrote:
-- big snip --

>Examplavis... And ETD will not insure an acceptable curve of beating
>thirds or tenths. It may or may not do a good job of it depending on
the
>piano, but it will not insure this because it simply has no way of
>directly doing so. Thats not what its listening for, and there is
>nothing in its calculated single partial curve that can indirectly
do
>this. 

Is an acceptable curve of thirds or tenths THE criteria for a good
tuning?  What is the criteria of a good tuning?  

The tuneoffs showed that an audience of piano technicians couldn't
decide which tuning was better by using aural means.  The work was
done by two highly respected (correction, HIGHLY RESPCETED)
technicians and the consensus was the results were equal.  To repeat
what Jim said, why does this matter keep coming up?

dave

_____________________________
David M. Porritt
dporritt@mail.smu.edu
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
_____________________________