[pianotech] Tuning contest proposal

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Re: [pianotech] Tuning contest proposalVergil Smith Jim Coleman Bill Bremmer
Joe Goss RPT
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Ilvedson 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning contest proposal


  Jim Coleman did this kind of thing with his piano tuned to some sort of temperment other thanET...I believe most didn't hear it...Bill Bremmers quasi-Victorian temperment won another contest...BUT that isn't the point...PTG and its members paid for the conventions that had contests...a slight part of the overall convention...

  David Ilvedson, RPT
  Pacifica, CA 94044


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  Original message
  From: "Duaine & Laura Hechler"  
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Received: 12/19/2008 7:27:46 PM
  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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