[pianotech] Tunic software

[Jeff Deutschle]

I understand. It is a "sound" thing, not a "pitch" thing.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
>>
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>>
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Regards,
Jeff Deutschle

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