Hi Kent, No they don't work well. Atleast not in Saskatchewan. I don't think it is related to pitch so much as to the impedance miss match. I have no proof other than direct observations. The PTG test is something I can not speak of from first hand knowledge. At 08:39 PM 10/29/01 -0600, you wrote: >Hi Don, > >I think Robert has a good question. > >We know that a piano might show lower inharmonicity in high humidity _if_ >that humidity has made the tuning go sharp and readings are taken on the >strings while they are still sharp. > >However, stored tunings are recalled every day from ETDs and used to tune >pianos. These stored tunings work well -- don't they? > >Do you have stored tunings that once worked well on a given piano but no >longer work well? > >The PTG tuning exam procedure uses a stored tuning as a reference and I have >never heard of a reference tuning working well in one season but poorly in >another... Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:drpt@sk.sympatico.ca http://donrose.xoasis.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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