I'll add another to the list: 7) Aural tuning skills help the tuner more effectively troubleshoot tunings. In some situations you don't have time to complete a regular tuning - so being able to listen to the piano and make appropriate judgments can really be a lifesaver. Troubleshooting is the high art of piano work - so any skill that helps us with our troubleshooting skills is well worth it. On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:34 AM, David Renaud <drjazzca at yahoo.ca> wrote: > > I am an active CTE and perhaps can add some thoughts to muse over. > Point form so you can pick what you want to respond to. > > 1) EDTs are fantastic tools. As an aural tuner for 20 years integrating > EDT use has made me a better tuner. The ability to analyze my unisons > and stability has tightened up my unisions and improved stability. The > ability to analyze what I do aurally has given definition, clarity, > and consistency to choices of stretch. The ability to save my best aural > tunings on concert instruments has been an aid worth a fortune this last > month with bronchitis, on 6am tunings, and on long long days. From an > Aural tuning advocate let be first be very clear on this; the EDTs > we have today are fantastic tools, I approve of their use, they are here > to stay, aural tuners can learn much from EDT analysis. > > 2) EDT only tuners can also learn much from aural analysis. Any smooth > tuning stretch curve generated from samples as taken by cybertuner, > tunelab and such does not account for each and every string scaling change > and accompanying inharmonicity jump. As small as these jumps may be they > remain significant. When staring from a quality machine tuning and > subjecting the tuning to careful aural tests for smooth progressions of > intervals the machine tuning even on a nice piano like a Yamaha C7 will > move away from the generated curve significantly and jump back with each > string size change. Fine concert tuning requires smoothing out interval > progressions this way. Verituner and perhaps others will listen to > individual note inharmonisity and generate compensation for same. When asked > if we can use Verituner to generate a master tuning I am told it > still takes a few passes to gather enough information for this. The ear > I think must remain the boss, as good as EDTs become careful aural > listening will be the judge by the finest musicians and tuners. > > 3) If we will not preserve this aural tradition who will? > > 4) I need subs for my 4 regular concert venues from time to time.... > I can not hire an EDT only tuner. What will they do if it crashes? What > will they do if your battery dies? What will they do > if they run over your kit with your car and kill the EDT(happened to one > tech I know) Tell the artist sorry, no tuning on stage today for the show. > I can not take this risk with my major clients when I send in a sub. > Therefore, you want to grow a business to include concert tuning, the top > musicians, and all the related references, Its less likely > to happen in this city without aural skills. > > 5) To many times I hear EDT only tuners who brag about "perfect" tunings, > "the same every time" that do not listen and trust the machine get followed > up with complaints. I subcontracted to one for a time and had to quite > because of complaints. No listening was taking place and the some of the > follow ups were scary tunings. > > 6) My personnel conclusion is integration is way of the future and is best. > Aural tuners can learn from EDTs, EDT tuners can learn from Aural > testing skills. Lets learn the best of both worlds and raise standards > all round. > > 2 cents worth for now > Cheers > Dave Renaud > from the Great White North > > > > 5) > this way. > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the > boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to > New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090404/d61c6ccd/attachment.html>
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