[pianotech] Tunic software

[Jeff Deutschle]

Have you ever compared a Tunic tuning with a PTG Master Tuning? If so,
what, if any, is the difference?


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Phil Bondi <phil at philbondi.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I know I'm a few days late on this discussion, but after reading some
> comments here, I feel compelled to add my 2 cents. I also want you to know
> that my experience with ETDs is limited to just one, and I do not have an
> understanding of how the others work.
>
> A few years ago, after talking to Dave Andersen and Tom Servinsky, I started
> on my quest to 'tune like Virgil'. I find Virgil a fascinating study in
> accuracy, spot-on unisons, and the ability to do all that while teaching a
> class is just phenomenal. I always felt my best aural tunings were as good
> or better than the tunings I was getting from my ETD. Cocky? no. Confident.
> I learned how to tune aurally from using my ETD as my guide, but after
> watching Virgil, hearing what he was producing, and talking to those techs,
> I realized I was woefully behind those techs in my personal quest to bring
> each piano I service to its pinnacle. I better mention that Larry Crabb
> might be a tad upset with me if I didn't mention his influence and his
> involvement in my development of aural tuning. He taught me what to listen
> for, and how to test.
>
> A few years pass while I'm on my quest to sound like Virgil, Dave, and
> others that I felt were steps ahead of me aurally..always asking questions,
> and trying to listen and hear what I was missing in my tunings..
>
> ..then I heard Tunic.
>
> I remember hearing Bernhard's example that he shared on pianotech..a piece
> in Bmin. - and I remember thinking..oh my..that's it. There were some
> comments that his sample was a nicely tuned piano with a good voice attached
> to it. I could not have disagreed more. What I heard was a tuning that
> transcended anything I had heard before from a ETD, or was able to produce
> consistently aurally.
>
> Last year in Anaheim, Dave Andersen was there with a piano..so was the
> Ranvenscroft. Both of these instruments impressed me with their clarity and
> translucent voice. I forget which one, but I believe one of those pianos was
> tuned using Tunic. As a new RVP, the majority of my time was tied up,
> literally!, in meetings, so I was not able to take in all that Anaheim had
> to offer. I met up with Bernhard in the lobby..on Sunday..as people are
> leaving from their Convention experience, I'm finally getting to mine, and
> it's with a developer that shared with me 'the sound' I was after. After
> talking with Bernhard for 1.5 hrs., I agreed to purchase his software as
> soon as I was able. It took me 2 months to save up the money, and it has
> been a fabulous journey since then. My older ETD, while a trustworthy
> instrument and faithful tool, has been relegated to strictly pitch raises
> and poorly-scaled pianos. It has been replaced with Bernhards OnlyPure
> software, because the results that are produced with this software turns
> heads.
>
> I still tune aurally once in awhile, but Bernhard Stopper has developed the
> software that Virgil Smith has been hearing all his life. I would have never
> guessed that a piece of piano tuning software would ever be able to produce
> Virgil Smith-type tunings without alot of tweaking and gnashing of teeth
> with the software. With Tunic, you turn it on, and go. I does not get any
> simpler than that. The results turns heads.
>
> -Phil Bondi(Fl)
>
>
>



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Regards,
Jeff Deutschle

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