Verituner

[Billbrpt@AOL.COM]

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> The first tuning with the VT was
> > > > > > impressive to say the least and the second tuning was stunning!
> > > > >
> > > > >

I've read most of what has been said about this.  While I'm not saying that 
this new ETD is not somehow more advanced than previous ones, I tend to side 
with the aural tuning perspective.  The "stunning" sound that comes from a 
higher degree of precision can just as easily be achieved aurally.  It's all 
in whether the person doing the tuning wants to work on that high of a level 
or not.

That is why my tuning was so impressive at the Convention in Providence.  It 
was worked up until it really and truly was what it was meant to be.  No 
*offsets* to compensate for *anticipated drop* or anything like that, just 
pure, rock solid precision.  It can't be done in 45 minutes and from my 
experience, many people, including those who run the Convention don't want 
that level of tuning demonstrated because they feel it is somehow threatening 
and disturbing to the status quo.

And I must add that while I believe firmly in the clearest, beatless unisons 
possible, I do not believe in this long accepted but obviously now obsolete 
idea that the piano sounds at its very best when the temperament and octaves 
are all made to be as *even* as possible.  Yes, it's what the Exam Committee 
has come up with and it's what all the books and courses say and of course 
it's the basis on which all the scientists who make these tuning devices, 
synthesizers, electronic keyboards, etc., believe in but it's only because 
they're all still stuck on the *arbitrary* idea developed in the middle of 
the 18th Century.  That idea had absolutely *no* foundation in music practice 
or theory.

I don't need a device that tells me what to do, especially if I know that 
it's wrong to begin with.

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin

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