Now where do you suppose we would do that sort of contest? Let's see if you can find the answer... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 Original message From: "Duaine & Laura Hechler" To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 12/19/2008 6:58:06 PM Subject: [pianotech] Tuning contest proposal Since there are many and heated views of which tuning way is better .... I propose a tuning contest and final report. Rules: - Find an independent person or team to officiate - Provide two identical piano and settings - Two highly respected tuners that are proficient in there respective skills (Aural and ETD) - Tune each piano at A440 - Equal Temperament - One tune aurally - One tune with ETD - Repeat (with the same tuners) for each Brand, Size and Style of piano Results: - Using an independent way to determine accuracy of the pitch of each note (all 88 notes) (Tuning forks / ETD in "test" mode" / etc) - If ETD is used, the initial one for the tuning can not be used. - Obviously, this rules out the tuning stability (how long the piano stays in tune), hammer technique, etc. (All the human elements that can't be accurately measured) Extra idea: - Repeat contest with each commercial ETD. Eagerly waiting the results, Duaine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081219/3515bc20/attachment.html>
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