[pianotech] convention - tuning stuff...

Kent Swafford kswafford at gmail.com
Thu Jul 23 20:26:01 MDT 2009


<grin>

I for one am very glad that I did not broadcast my impressions after  
my first few PureTuner tunings. Actually, it sounds like your first  
tunings may have gone better than mine. (LOL)

Put some effort into OnlyPure and I wager you'll be more and more  
pleased as time goes on.



Kent




On Jul 22, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ron Koval wrote:

> I really liked the tuning on the Kawai for the evening recital -  
> nice work Don M!  I was waaay in the back; the piano had plenty of  
> carry and a good range of tone.  The next morning, I happened to be  
> in Don's basic tuning class and found out how tough the tuning went  
> - the regular dishes clanking at all the wrong times and a ten  
> degree temp. range during the tuning!
>
> Kent Swafford tuned a P22 using the OnlyPure software.  Since I had  
> recently purchased my own copy, I was interested in finding out more  
> about the calculated tunings.  The interface has a killer display  
> for really getting a precise result.  Sadly for me, the overall  
> result hasn't compared to what I can get with the Verituner custom  
> styles.  In fact, my first day tuning back home, my pocket pc with  
> verituner had a fatal hang - I used the OnlyPure on a Kimball  
> upright before I could pick up my verituner box for the rest of the  
> day.  The tuning felt "unpolished" - kindof like a really good one- 
> pass pitch raise that has solid unisons, but the overall sheen and  
> resonance just didn't make it.
>
> Some of us there had some good guessing games trying to take a stab  
> at what the software must be doing!  No hard data yet...
>
> Ron Koval
> chicagoland
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