[CAUT] using as ETD, was Re: Too tall!!??

[David Ilvedson]

"Where ignorance is bliss..."   

Never stop studying your craft...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jeff Tanner" <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 4/10/2010 8:25:11 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD, was Re:  Too tall!!??



>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
>> Stress?
>>
>> I suppose anyone who feels stress while tuning should get one ...
>>
>> Susan Kline, aural dinosaur

>Hi Susan,
>I've always felt an aural tuning takes as much out of me as a high energy 
>musical performance of the same length of time.  After 26 years, I still 
>don't see how one can aurally tune a piano and it not be stressful with the 
>level of concentration required. Tuning aurally in the university was 
>exponentially more stressful. All that hard effort wiped out in just a 
>matter of days, and sometimes hours really takes a toll on the old psyche. 
>Buying an EDT was the best thing I ever did for stress reduction.  Er, 2nd 
>best thing I ever did for stress reduction. Quitting the university job was 
>the best thing, by far.

>Jim Busby, I agree with everything you said, especially the agreeing with 
>the EDT differences in tuning part.  Our aural tuning rules don't take into 
>account that the area of the piano we usually set an aural temperament is 
>the worst scaled part of the piano. When we insist on making that section 
>work with our rules, we introduce errors into the tuning that only increase 
>as we expand the tuning into the rest of the scale.  Once I started trusting 
>that the EDT was actually creating a more equal temperament than my aural 
>rules did, I started noticing the overall tuning worked out much better. 
>Also, storing tunings and using the same tuning every time on the same piano 
>exponentially increases stability.

>Jeff Tanner