> Compared to some other musical instruments the sounding tone of a piano note > is very stable in frequency. However, if you read a piano note with a modern > ETD, you _can_ see ups and downs in the frequency in the ETD display. A hard blow raises a string's pitch immediately for the first second or two of the tone, and as the energy dissipates you can visually see the pitch decline slightly. A hard blow is necessary to set the pin, but a soft blow will give a more accurate reading of the string's true pitch. I would expect that if a tuner uses visual ETD only on hard blows, the tuning will be less accurate than if the pin is first set with a hard blow and then checked visually on a soft blow. But this is supposition - I have not yet enough experience with ETD. || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 orcas island * 360 376 2799 || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || |||
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