[pianotech] Tunic software

Kent Swafford kswafford at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 07:51:44 PDT 2009


Such questions are very difficult, perhaps impossible, to accurately  
answer.

Stopper's ETD may be the first ETD which produces an identifiable,  
distinctive style of tuning. Other ETDs are "tweakable" to suit the  
preferences of the individual piano tech.

Although I find PureTuner's sound quite pleasing, it is likely that  
some will find it not so. Most especially, the software will tune  
given notes in a way that supports the overall effect of the tuning;  
I'm almost certain that some techs will be unwilling to give up their  
own stretch preferences in specific parts of the scale; and to do is  
necessary to achieve the software's overall synchronous effect.

Sorry,


Kent



On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Jeff Deutschle wrote:

> Kent:
>
> Could you say about how many cents narrow around B6? Any difference in
> the bass? Again about how many cents around C1? How do the
> mid-sections compare?
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Kent Swafford  
> <kswafford at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Jeff Deutschle
>
> Please address replies to the List. Do not E-mail me privately.  
> Thank You.
>




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