[pianotech] Tuning contest proposal

[David Love]

It was Jim Coleman and .(help me here folks) and I believe the results were
that there was no perceptible difference in quality of the tuning.  How it
was measured I don't recall.  Nor do I recall what type of piano was used.  

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Duaine & Laura Hechler
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:28 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning contest proposal

 

So was Terry right - that "Experienced tuners could not tell definitively
which was aural and which was etd! "

David Love wrote: 

Been done.  

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

 

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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















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