Andre, You're definitely "peaking" my interest! If I ever get $1400.00 to spare, I would probably buy one. The only reason I have an SAT III is that I was able to get the university to pay for it! Avery At 10:48 PM 06/20/03 +0200, you wrote: >On vrijdag, jun 20, 2003, at 21:49 Europe/Amsterdam, Alan Forsyth wrote: > >>>>>" But this is still all based on the original scale that is set and that >>is the way it should be. ...To deviate from this standard (variations >>accepted) is not in my opinion a good practice. To allow a machine to say " >>Hey my C1 inharmonicity is way, way, out, so you have to tune the piano with >>a scale that will accept me and to hell with every other note." is not >>good.......So I guess that the correct way to tune a piano is still by ear. >>...........">>> > > >I am sorry Alan Forsyth, >but I do not agree with you. >I have tuned an awful lot of piano's by ear and I have spoken here many >times about my aural tuning experience. >At the same time I have become an advocate for the most perfect tuning >machine: the Verituner > >This machine gives us the most perfect tuning possible with the least >amount of trouble. i.e. no computer stuff, no choosing of partials, no >anything. >You just choose your pitch and that's just it. A perfect box and at the >same time perfectly simple to handle too. >So far, every buyer that I know of went crazy after the very first tuning >: they can't believe it! they have never heard such a >fantastic tuning before in their whole life...every buyer! > >So think about that! you want to tune by ear? what's against that? >nothing. but to say "So I guess that the correct way to tune a piano is >still by ear' like you just said ? >That is today not necessary anymore. We are now living in 2003 and the >Verituner has been around for a number of years. leaving behind an army of >extremely happy tuners. >With all my respect for aural tuning and for you. (the other day my >battery was low and I had to tune aurally, the old fashioned way....I >grumbled but of course did the job and it was easier than ever before! >Using the Verituner has even improved my hearing) > >Antares, >The Netherlands > >see my web site : www.concertpianoservice.nl >and : www.grandpiano.nl > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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