Creating TuneLab files?

[Frank Weston]

1.  Measure selected notes.

2.  Determine which partials you want to match in what ranges.

3.  Use the graphic editor, select the partials you want, match the notes
by moving them around with the cursor.

4.  Smooth the curve.

5.  Tune the piano.

I realize that I have eliminated a lot of detail, but TL is fairly
intuitive if you understand what your are about.  Never forget that the
objective is to produce a tuning that is pleasing to the ear, not
necessarily theoretically or graphically perfect.  No matter what I try,
the bass always sounds best to me when tuned purely by ear.

Frank Weston

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> From: CDeets@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Creating TuneLab files?
> Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 10:20 PM
> 
> In a message dated 8/4/98 7:28:39 AM Central Daylight Time,
> klavier@annap.infi.net writes:
> 
> << Creating your own .tun file is so easy, there should be no reason that
you
>  would need someone else's.  Just measure inharmonicity at all the C's,
and
>  A4, then use the graphic editor to fit the tuning curve.  The whole
process
>  should take no more than 10 minutes, and once you get a little
experience,
>  more like 3 to 5 minutes.
>  
>  What's the use of having all TuneLab's wonderful analytical capability
if
>  you don't use it?
>  
>  Frank Weston >>
> 
> O.K. Frank,
> 
> I am a little slower than the average computer person.  I can measure
> inharmonicity on the A and C's, but when I go to the graphic editor, I am
not
> sure what I am looking at or what to do here.  Better walk me through
this by
> step, if you don't mind.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Craig Deets, Associate member (comptuer impared)