etd tunings

Don pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
Tue, 04 Jun 2002 22:04:13 -0600


Hi Les,

Define the tolerance allowed for error. Is it good enough that to a well
trained piano technician not a single unison is unclean? In that scenario
tunings last perhaps hours or maybe under perfect conditions days, provided
there is almost no pitch correction.

At 08:26 PM 6/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
>One pass pitch raise, and a second to "fine tune" it.............  
>That's what he says.  He has two master of music degrees, his eldest son
>is doing giggs as an orchestral conductor, youngest at 14 has twice
>played with Houston symphony.  Not a light-weight family musically.  His
>rebuilding work is fine quality- and I heard him tune aurally once
>several years ago, before ETD's became so popular, and it was good.
>
>So, two passes, from 100 cents out, and he says it should last, on most
>pianos, a year.
>les
>
>
>
>On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:05:58 -0400 Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
>writes:
>> Les,
>>          There's no way that a one pass pitch raise is good enough 
>> for a 
>> year unless you can't hear a bloody thing anymore!
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 07:52 PM 6/4/2002, you wrote:
>> >I local and I were chatting about pitch raising with an ETD. He has
>> >Cybertuner and I have TunelabPro.  He says he can go through once 
>> in
>> >pitch raise mode, then fine tune, and a 100-cent pitch raise is 
>> good for
>> >a year.  That seems a bit of a "stretch".    Opinions please. 
>> Thanks
>> >les bartlett
>> >
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Regards,
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