Verituner

[Farrell]

Because, as I understand it, if you do a one-pass tuning the VT only sees
each note once, and, for example, the calculated pitch of notes near the
temperament (the first notes tuned) do not take into account the
inharmonicity of strings in the upper and lower registers.

If you save that tuning, the VT also saves (effectively at least) all the
inharmonicity information for all 88 notes. If you recall this info and
start tuning that same piano six months later, the VT already knows the
inharmonicity of all 88 notes. Therefore the first calculation for the first
string you tune will be better than the first time because it will be making
compromises regarding how 3rds, 5ths, 4ths, 6ths,10ths, octaves, double
octaves, etc. are going to blend in with those first notes. I would assume
that the second time around, the temperament would be slightly different
that the first time through.

As I understand it, each successive time you go through the piano with the
VT, it will refine the calculated tuning.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Verituner


> What would be the point of saving a tuning?  If the VT measures as you go,
> why bother?
>
> David Love
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: January 20, 2002 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Verituner
>
>
> > Hi Paul (or anyone familiar with the Verituner). How many tunings can
the
> > Verituner store? Assuming it is less than 1,000 or so, can you download
a
> > saved tuning to your computer easily? If so, then I trust six months
later
> > when you back to tune the same piano, you can upload that saved tuning
> from
> > your computer to the Verituner, and go tune that same piano and get a
> nicely
> > refined tuning (as though you did two passes that day) on the first
pass?
> >
> > What is it that is so whacko about the pitch raise feature on the
> Verituner?
> > What is it like? The SAT III pitch raise feature is actually a very
simple
> > thing, but it works pretty good (I have heard that RTC pitch raise works
> > very well). It's hard to imagine how it could be more primitive than the
> > SAT.
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <larudee@pacbell.net>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: Verituner
> >
> >
> > > I confess I was expecting something quite different from Keith.  I
also
> > had a VT
> > > that I returned within the trial period, but reluctantly and for very
> > different
> > > reasons.
> > >
> > SNIP
> > >
> > > Paul Larudee
> > >
> >
> >
>