tuneoff?

[Richard Brekne]

Sounds good to me Ron. And I echo you desire for a more informational approach
to doing these. Course the difficulty remains in defining the criteria for
judging a tuning.

Seems actually like an easy task to me tho... simply sample each note after the
tuning is done, recording partial information for partials 1-12 (or as high up
the partial ladder as the treble strings allow), then pump the data into a
number cruncher to reveal all relavant beat rates....  Nothing could be
clearer...:)

Regardless of how its done... a fair and impartial and objective criteria for
assesment of the tunings is the most important hitch me thinks. But I am with
you all the way !

RicB

Ron Koval wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> I haven't heard much about a tuneoff recently.  What I'd like to see is less
> competitive and more informational.  If we accept that the 'best' tuners get
> pretty even results, no matter if aural or machine calculated, I think it
> would be interesting to see what the 'baseline' tunings of each of the
> popular machines are.  I suspect that Mr. Coleman, when tuning by machine
> only, uses his SAT in an aural manner; that is, playing a note while the
> machine is set to another note.  This would allow the 'reading' of
> intervals, though no intervals are being played while tuning.
>
> SOT, SAT 1,2,3, tunelab, tunelab pro, RCT, Verituner, Peterson, Korg....
> What kind of tunings do they calculate on their own on average pianos?  That
> way, someone who is shopping for an EDT would be able to see what each
> machine does just with its built in stretches or custom calculations.
>
> It seems that all the literature says something like "let your ear be the
> final authority", so let's see how close these things come, without checks,
> and what, if any differences there are between the tuning curves calculated
> by each company.
>
> How 'bout it?
>
> Ron Koval
> Chicagoland
>
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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
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