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

Susan Kline skline at peak.org
Sat Apr 10 20:51:13 MDT 2010


David, I said I wasn't within three cents. Certainly not overall,
though some notes seem pretty close, and probably are within three
cents.

And how do you know that you've read something carefully enough?

Susan



>How do you know your within 3 cents?
>
>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, CA  94044
>
>----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Received: 4/10/2010 12:53:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD, was Re:  Too tall!!??
>
>
> >I agree that a pitch raise is a very good way to use Tunelab.
>
> >However, Cy, you've never seen this aural tuner take on a new piano
> >at A430 without overshooting. I don't get within three cents
> >throughout, but a lot of it ends up fairly close after one pass.
>
> >Susan the Dinosaur ......
>
> >>Or anyone who does a pitch raise.  I've watched aural tuners take a
> >>new piano at A430, just do a normal temperament and tuning at A440
> >>without overshooting, and wind up with a piano with the middle five
> >>octaves in tune with A about 435, and the bottom and top octaves sharp.
> >>
> >>I do a one-pass pitch raise with TuneLab, no mutes, bottom to top,
> >>in less than 20 minutes, that leaves every string within about three
> >>cents.  Then my aural tuning is stable.
> >>
> >>--Cy--




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