Kent, After reading your review, I thought I would give it a try. WOW hefty price for a no bells and whistles ETD. Al -------------------------------------------------- From: "Kent Swafford" <kswafford at gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:16 PM To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [pianotech] The Tunic OnlyPure Tuner > You ask the right questions. So far, I haven't heard much good > speculation about what might be under the hood of PureTuner. > > A few have suggested some things for me to look at in order to learn a > bit about how the ETD really works. > > And I have few of my own ideas for research I could do when I have the > time. > > But I'm really looking forward to the time when there are more users of > PureTuner, experienced in what it can do, and comparing notes with all > the other users. > > Meanwhile, I'm finding I am enjoying a good mystery... > > > Kent > > > > On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:56 PM, David B. Stang wrote: > >> >> I read Kent Swafford's article in the March Journal about the >> "Tunic OnlyPure" ETD with great interest. Kent said inventor "has >> stated his intention to withhold most explanations of how all >> this works", and their web site says very little other than what >> the article said. >> Kent writes that the inventor claims it "deals with inharmonicity >> in a new way that is automatic". >> It seems magical to me that any device could just start tuning >> a note without having previously recorded data about the inharmonicity >> of other notes. How does it "know" where to place a treble pitch, >> without inharmonicity data from lower strings? >> Kent said it did a great job, but it can't really be magic, so, I'm >> just wondering if anyone has any general speculation about >> how it works. (Gosh, I was just beginning to think I had >> some idea of how regular ETD's work, now this comes along!) >> Thanks >> >> David B. Stang >> Columbus Ohio >> >> >> > > >
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