[CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?

[ricb at pianostemmer.no]

I have to disagree about the tune-offs.  They were useless as
experiements designed to ascertain anything at all except that a
bunch of folks sitting in an audience could not really hear much of a
difference... which say more about the degree those in the audience
could hear either due to the degree of refinnement their ears had
attained or because of limitations due to the acoustics in the
listening area.

It is worth noting that another tuneoff was held some years later in
which Bill Bremmer put his non-equal temperament on the stage along
side of a Virgil tuning and an ETD tuning...  and by all accounts
I've heard the Bremmer tuning was indeed differentiated from the
other two and by no means in a negative sence.

As for your cold dead hands... grin... that wont be necessarry.  My
personal advice to folks is to attain and to maintain excellence in
both approaches.

Cheers

RicB


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Fred:

I'd have to say I agree with everything you've said below.  I think
this
was established in the tune-offs between Virgil Smith and Jim Coleman
several years ago.  My first 20 years in this business I tuned
strictly
aurally.  For the past 15 it's been with an ETD. If you want my Pocket
PC with TuneLab you'll have to take it from my cold dead hands!

dp

David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu