He may do fine, but maybe not. And if he misses slightly with a tuning that is too far outside the master tuning, he may just fail. There is a subjectivity to the scoring of the test and I just think it prudent not to push the envelope unnecessarily. The goal is to pass, afterall, not to prove a point. David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Kent Swafford Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:53 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Sanderson Temperament On May 3, 2005, at 12:36 PM, David Love wrote: > While this may work well in practice, it might be a tad zippy for the > RPT test. Maybe that's one problem with the set up of the test. It > doesn't tolerate different tuning styles that well. The tolerances in > the temperament octave are fairly small and a 2bps fourth may be > pushing > the envelope. Not if it's within a uniformly wide test tuning. It is true that most master tunings are conservatively narrow, but aural verification is real. The scoring of the examinee's tuning against the master tuning is just a raw score, nothing more. No points are actually deducted until the examiners have heard the tuning error with their own ears. This means if an examinee comes in and tunes wide, he may do fine on the exam if his chromatic intervals progress smoothly, thanks to aural verification. Indeed, I know of a tuning exam where the examinee thought that the examiners _wanted_ a wide tuning, so that is what he tuned. The raw score showed him failing, but after aural verification, he had actually passed at the CTE level. Kent _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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