ETDs and aural checks

[David M. Porritt]

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Clyde:

In my work, I do a lot of repeat tunings of the same piano.  If I
have a tuning for a particular piano in which I am very confident I
don't do much by way of aural checks.  If I'm doing an unfamiliar
piano or have set up a new tuning, I do quite a few aural checks.
The bass of most pianos are not predictable, and an ETD is using math
to predict what is there.  This to me begs for aural checks.

dave
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On 1/12/02 at 9:47 AM Clyde Hollinger wrote:
Friends, 
How many of you ETD users do aural checks?  Isn't that a waste of
time, if you can trust the ETD?  Or can't they be trusted?  (I'm not
giving my opinion -- yet, anyway.) 
Clyde 
David Love wrote: 
To set each string in 5 seconds might be reasonable on some pianos.
But I don't see how that could possibly take into account setting a
temperament (for aural tuners), taking measurements and calculating
stretch (for ETD users), or going through any types of aural checks
(which should happen for both).
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@mail.smu.edu
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
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