Verituner

Marcel Carey mcpiano@globetrotter.net
Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:59:44 -0500


Your own ears could be surprised by the tunings obtained with the
Verituner. I used to be an aural tuner too. Wisdom came with age I
guess...

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael Gamble
> Sent: 8 février, 2004 12:55
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Re: Verituner
>
>
> Hello List
> A few years ago I was in a church tuning a piano when the
> organ tuners
> arrived to complicate matters. They saw me using an ancient
> Seiko quartz
> chromatic tuner and said: "You're cheating using that
> thing" Well I suppose
> in a way I was - they still abide by the tuning fork method
> of laying the
> bearings. But that's all I use the tuner for - just laying
> the bearings.
> Even then I'm checking M3,M4, M5s and as soon as I'm out of
> the bearing area
> I turn the darn thing off. Save the batteries. The ear is
> by far the better
> judge of tuning IMHO than any electronic tuning device -
> particularly at
> both ends of the keyboard.
> Regards on a dusky evening listening to the peal of the
> Village church opf
> St.Mary...
> Michael G (UK)
>
>
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