[pianotech] Aural vs. ETD

[William Monroe]

Will you quit being pragmatic?  It really complicates things.........

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WRM

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> David Love wrote:
>
>> Right.  How does tuning in a variety of historical temperaments or with
>> varying amounts of stretch fit into that idealized notion of a “perfect”
>> tuning.  There’s a pretty wide range of perfect in this art form.
>>
>
>
> It doesn't. In my opinion, the notion of an absolute tuning, the
> resurrection of historical temperaments, and the 2 cent tolerance on pitch
> adjustment were all made possible by widespread use of modern ETDs. We now
> have more decimal places within which to argue, which puts us well beyond
> the practical resolution of most of the pianos we tune, and nearly all of
> our customers.
>
> Ron N
>
>
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