[pianotech] phenomana - experiment.

[David Love]

I would definitely agree with that.  I also had an experience once where I
tuned for a two-piano recording and the two pianos were separated in two
different rooms.  I certainly felt more confident that those pianos were
going to be a perfect match using an ETD, especially when there was no
possibility way of putting them keyboard to keyboard and checking them note
for note.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


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David:

That note-by-note sameness available with ETD use can be very important in
recording studios where a segment might be inserted in after the main
session. Most recordings now have lots of "edits" inserted at a later date
and the tuning really needs to be the same. 

dp
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] phenomana - experiment.

And I would say your statement is false.  Ed Foote describe very well how a
calculated tuning can be memorized, refined and duplicated using an ETD.
For all practical purposes, that tuning will be able to repeated as
precisely as one is able to control the tuning lever.  Certainly one can
recreate an acceptable, artistic and successful tuning aurally on the same
piano on repeated tunings but the likelihood of actual note for note pitch
variability will be much greater with the aural tuning.  I don't think
that's that hard to fathom nor a great mystery.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:57 AM
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On May 15, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:

> Whereas, an ETD tuner, CAN create the EXACT same tuning over, and 
> over,
and over, and over, etc.


This statement is false.

You overestimate the stability of piano tone. Tunings of the same piano vary
from one to the next, regardless of how they are accomplished.=