ETDs and aural checks

[David Love]

In my experience, this is absolutely correct.  Accuracy of pitch must be
tested with a soft blow.

David Love


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Kanter" <jkanter@rollingball.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: January 12, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: ETDs and aural checks


>. 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.
>
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