[pianotech] The Tunic OnlyPure Tuner

David B. Stang stangdave at columbus.rr.com
Wed Mar 4 15:56:09 PST 2009


I read Kent Swafford's article in the March Journal about the
"Tunic OnlyPure" ETD with great interest. Kent said inventor "has
stated his intention to withhold most explanations of how all
this works", and their web site says very little other than what
the article said.
Kent writes that the inventor claims it "deals with inharmonicity
in a new way that is automatic".
It seems magical to me that any device could just start tuning
a note without having previously recorded data about the inharmonicity
of other notes. How does it "know" where to place a treble pitch,
without inharmonicity data from lower strings?
Kent said it did a great job, but it can't really be magic, so, I'm
just wondering if anyone has any general speculation about
how it works. (Gosh, I was just beginning to think I had
some idea of how regular ETD's work, now this comes along!)
Thanks

David B. Stang
Columbus Ohio





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