[pianotech] Tunic software

[Kent Swafford]

I have said that I believe a PureTuner tuning could serve well as a master
tuning, with the exception of the high treble, for which the exam calls for
clean single octaves. I have said that as a practical matter, master tunings
tend to be somewhat more narrow than PureTuner tunings.
Kent Swafford

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Jeff Deutschle <oaronshoulder at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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)
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jeff Deutschle
>
> Please address replies to the List. Do not E-mail me privately. Thank You.
>
>
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