On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Duaine & Laura Hechler <dahechler at att.net>wrote: > This may seem like a silly question but .... > > At least Cybertuner has stretch factors built-in. Do you aural tuners do > stretch factors? > > How do you tune "pure" octaves with a "stretch" factor - this seems > oxymoronic. > > Duaine > > -- > Duaine Hechler > Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ > Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding > Reed Organ Society Member > Florissant, MO 63034 > (314) 838-5587 > dahechler at att.net > www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com > -- > Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years > > Hi Duaine, My mentor told me in answer to my prefacing a question with the statement "This is probably a dumb question". That there are no dumb/silly questions just dumb/silly answers! I "recently"(a year ago) switched from being a purely aural tuner to using a Cybertuner, rather seamlessly as it turned out since I had chosen the Cybertuner after one of our chapter meetings at which all of our members who used etd's brought them and showed how they were used. I found the Cybertuner "matched" what I heard aurally the best. I discovered after acquiring mine that I had developed a few bad habits and was over stretching the treble and had to accustom my ear to that. It didn't take long I still tune unisons aurally, do my usual tests and interval checks but find the choice to switch has made me faster and less fatigued at the end of the day. -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091113/0634f24b/attachment.htm>
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