Blatent commercial endorsement ...was Tuning

[David Ilvedson]

I'd say a 30 cent pitch raise and the tone change from the added tension might have been the big difference to your clients ears...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California






Original message
From: "Alan Barnard" 
To: "ilvey at sbcglobal.net, "Pianotech List" 
Received: 7/10/2006 10:04:40 AM
Subject: Blatent commercial endorsement ...was Tuning


David I. asked: 'Just out of curosity, what sort of areas are you tweaking aurally?'
 
Cy talked about Tunelab and most PR being one-pass.
 
Now this points out two of the things that I absolutely love about Tunelab:
 
1. Pitch corrections are astoundingly accurate, even big ones.
 
2. The curves it calculates are also excellent. I've had occasions where I wanted to tweak things and then remembered to check the list of computer-calculated inharmonicity
constants, found one or two inconsistent, remeasured those notes (or nearby notes, instead) and come up with a curve requiring no tweaks. Also, on small pianos, when the tenor-bass octaves sound "off", I set it on "split-scale" and get a beautiful tuning.
 
True recent story: Lady has a Betsy Ross, ahem, that she bought new in 1945. When I was working on it (new elbows), she repeatedly said that she has never been happy with the way it sounds after tuning (can't imagine why). I tuned it, split-scale, after a 30 cent PR and thought it sounded not-too-bad. She played it and was absolutely thrilled.
 
I've said it before and--at the risk of sounding like a commercial--I'll say it again: I cannot understand why anyone pays so much more for other ETD's. It can only be because they never tried TL.
 
Alan Barnard
Hopelessly lost but making excellent time
... in or near Salem, Missouri
 
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