tuning time

Clyde Hollinger cedel@supernet.com
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:26:55 -0500


Don and list,

I'd like to raise a question about the "longer if I use an EDT" line (assuming
you meant ETD, electronic tuning device).

Does anyone want to comment on why tuning with an EDT should take longer, which
is also the way I find it?  My hunch is that, for average pianos, the human ear
is more forgiving than an ETD is, especially at the ends of the keyboard.
Therefore a person has to work harder to get those lights or spinner to stop.

And why do some tuners find it the other way around?

Regards,
Clyde

Don wrote:

> For me a concert tuning should involve no net change in pitch on any note
> (2 cents or preferrably less). So one is essentially cleaning unisons.
> Therefore a concert tuning for me takes no more than about 30 minutes.
> Longer if I use an EDT.


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