Tunelab & ETD's in General was Accutuner and Pocket RCT

[Vanderhoofven]

At 02:01 AM 3/4/03, Alan Barnard wrote:
>I've about decided that I really want to become almost a strictly aural 
>tuner. I love the ETD's for pitch raises, bad scale analysis, and the top
>octave ... but it seems like I spend way too much time watching the lights,
>kinda makes me a slave to making them stop dead. Since individual notes are
>going to drift slightly as their neighbors are pulled up, anyway, is it
>really worth the aggravation?

Hi Alan,

I think you would benefit greatly if you went to being a strictly aural 
tuner.  This would probably help train your ear and mind to a high level of 
perfection.  Ask any of the high level tuners in our profession if training 
in strictly aural tuning is neccesary and beneficial.

Having said that, you can pry my tuning devices from my cold dead fingers, 
and even then you might not get them away.

Why I would not do without a tuning device:

1.  I can tune a piano in a school cafeteria while 200 children are eating 
lunch and talking loudly.  (Yes the piano sounded good!)
2.  I can tune a piano while someone is vacuuming, playing another piano or 
musical instrrument (practice room), or during most other noise.
3.  I hardly ever run into a piano tuning that isn't a pitch correction of 
some type.  My tuning devices make pitch corrections so much faster and easier.
4.  Any time I want to tune strict Equal Temperament I can do that with 
good results.  However, I also regularly use at least 4 or 5 other 
temperaments on a weekly basis, and at least 10 or 12 temperaments with 
some lesser frequency.  I can truly say that tuning has becoome a joy again 
as opposed to just stopping the display.
5.  Chip tunings can be done with high accuracy
6.  I can tune when I have a cold or personally feel lousy
7.  I hold dominion over my computer.  The computer is my slave.  I am not 
a slave to my computer.

Now a serious question for you Alan.  How do you use a tuning device for 
bad scale analysis?  I don't know how to do that.

Sincerely,
David Vanderhoofven