a different interpretation of 'tone', or 'color'.

[antares]

In regard to this I would like to repeat what  I wrote before  :

A perfect electronic tuning device will give you the perfect pitch for every
note to be tuned.  The tuning offered us through this perfect tuning device
is exactly what about 99.9 % of all - piano - tuners in the world are
striving for and It gives us the blissful quick answer to a very complicated
Chinese puzzle.
I think it is necessary for every tuning apprentice / student / professional
to first tune thousands of pianos aurally in order to get trained properly,
develop a tuning 'ear' and so know by instinct how to make a decent tuning.
In that case, when the battery of the ETD is low he/she can continue solving
the Chinese puzzle.

To make a - really - perfect tuning aurally, in one hour, is virtually
impossible. For that we need a perfect tuning machine, and they now exist.
To make a - really - perfect tuning aurally costs a lot of time, at least
hours, and takes very much concentration and energy. Many of us know this,
and they also know that after four of these 'perfect' concert tunings we are
ready for 'home', and almost total loss.

If that's what you want, that's fine with me because I too know what it
means.
That's why I chose for the perfect ETD and let that machine calculate the
perfected pitch.
Of each unison I tune the middle string according to what the ETD tells me.
Than I shut off my 'magic box' and the 'artistic' or 'ear work' starts :

I tune the remaining strings and make the best tone possible by listening
with my musical ear and thereby choosing the right moment where the unison
is at its most beautiful.
Every tuner. every human being, has a different interpretation of 'tone', or
color and therefor every tuner will create a different 'tone' on the same
instrument.

This is something an ETD can not do for us and that is the mistake ETD
antagonists make, they think the ETD replaces the ear! but that is not the
case. 
The very smart ETD is a very smart short cut to the 'right' pitch, and no
more.

The ear chooses the personal moment of beauty, based on personal musicality
and musical experience in general.


friendly greetings
from

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

"where music is, no harm can be"

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