[CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?

[jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca]

99.9% of the people, don't care.
As long as it sounds good to them, and they paid a price they like, thay are 
satisfied.
Conrad, I believe I will need a double order of your oversize suits for this 
one. LOL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: [CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?


> Yes he / she will indeed do so.  And for the more accomplished in our 
> trade I would submit this is one of the advantages of an aural tuner over 
> an ETD.  Tho again... the level of precision we (I at least) are talking 
> about is well beyond any discussion of what is way more then acceptable as 
> an excellent concert tuning.  This <<inconsistancy>> (at this level of 
> work at least) is where human intuition and creativity takes over. 
> Whether that matters significantly or not to the pianist, the audience, or 
> anyone but the tuner him/her self is another question.  My take is that in 
> 99.8% of the time... a high level tuning is going to be perfectly ok 
> regardless of whether or not these <<inconsistancies>> are applied or not, 
> and that the remainder of the time it will probably be a tossup as to 
> which approach will be successful for any given pianist.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
>    an Aural tuner has the ability
>     >to colour a tuning in a fashion not attainable by an ETD tuning. I
>     >would go so far as to say that unless the final pass is tweaked
>     >strictly by ear... an ETD tuning has no chance of such coloring."
>
>    I submit the aural tuner will add colour everytime with
>    inconsistency...;-]
>
>    David Ilvedson, RPT
>    Pacifica, CA  94044
>
>