ETD's; selling RCT and Mac powerbook

[Clyde Hollinger]

This came as a surprise to me when I started using RCT several weeks
ago.  I was led to believe that RCT would improve my tunings greatly
over what I could do aurally, so it was demoralizing to finish a tuning
and think, "Whoa!  I don't like this at all!"  I suppose this is covered
in the manual that comes with the software, but I am having trouble
taking the time to read it all.  

Does it work, after the tuning is calculated, to just do a couple
octaves aurally in the tenor break area and follow RCT for the rest?  Or
are there other helpful hints?  (Oh, yes, the piano in question was
definitely scale-challenged!  :-))

Clyde Hollinger, RPT
Lititz, PA

Alan McCoy wrote:

> 5. Bass/tenor break and related scale-challenged pianos: I'm not sure there is
> a clear winner here either. You just can't stop using your ears and the
> computer between your ears. Some pianos just require unacceptable compromises -
> either there is a glitch in the thirds and sixths, or the octaves, fifths, and
> fourths are terrible, or all of the above. The SAT uses the 4th partial and 6:3
> octaves into the bass, and RCT lets you choose the 3rd or 4th partial and the
> 5th or 6th partial. I have tried both. If there is an advantage here I believe
> it is with RCT because you can choose your poison. With both machines you have
> to devise some method of compromise. I can't stand bad octaves or bad fifths so
> I tend to favor them, but in so doing my thirds don't progress smoothly (what
> the hell - some pianos just have outrageous glitches!)  For this region of the
> scale it is often simplest to just do it by ear rather than with either
> machine.