It is highly unlikely that a one-pass "tuning", raising pitch 90-120 cents will ever turn out well. It would probably never be up to RPT standards. This is not to say that it might not ever happen ... "ever" is a long time. But pianos just do not normally react this way. Duaine, may I respectfully say that you have disqualified yourself from judging what should be on the RPT exam? If you "absolutely can't understand the checks and which one is faster/slower 3rds/4ths and all of that," then you really are not qualified to judge what constitutes a good tuning. I'd have kept silent if you'd merely stated that you can tune better with a machine than by ear. But you have made some statements that just ain't so. -- JF On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Duaine & Laura Hechler < dahechler at charter.net> wrote: > Alan, > > I've done the one pass with the piano as much as 90-120 cents flat. > > Personally, I have not tuned for critical performances, however, my > mentor has. He has been in the business 30+ years, learned aural tuning > and now tunes with Cybertuner exclusively, except when the customer > requests aural tuning. > > P.S. That is why aural tuning should be taken out of the RPT tests - > meaning the machine can make a better tuning than aurally. > > Duaine > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081216/59914eb1/attachment.html>
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