etd's and ears

[paul bruesch]

As a noob to the biz who's yet to get anywhere near proficient at aural
tuning, I use an ETD every time I tune for a customer. When said customer
has a decent piano I use the SAT-3 Sequence option to tune in temperament
sequence, using aural checks to learn the art of the science. I don't know
if any other ETD's have such a feature... which doesn't mean none have it...
I just don't know if they do or not.
Paul

On 2/15/07, Annie Grieshop <annie at allthingspiano.com> wrote:
>
>  [Feeling akin to the puppy that blunders into No Man's Land (while the
> movie audience weeps, of course <g>)....]
>
> Something I've been thinking about lately: when using an ETD, I tune from
> one end of the piano to the other, but when I tune aurally, I start in the
> middle and work out.  There's no reason not to tune middle-out with an ETD,
> as far as I know, but I haven't.  (I use a Cybertuner.)
>
> So, at least two questions:
> *  is the sequence of tuning part of the differences between ears and
> ETDs?
> *  does anyone do middle-out with an ETD as a matter of course?
>
> In light of the recent discussion of how the piano reacts to the changing
> stresses of tuning, it seems as though a bottom-top sequence would certainly
> torque things around quite differently than middle-out.
>
> Another question related to stress:  strip muting the piano and tuning one
> string for all notes before pulling in the unisons vs. tuning all strings in
> sequence........
>
> Thanks, as always!
>
> Annie Grieshop
>
>
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