[pianotech] Octaves & Unions

Duaine Hechler dahechler at att.net
Fri Feb 4 13:11:44 MST 2011


On 02/04/2011 02:02 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
>
>     Let's put it this way, with Cybertuner, you tune from A0 to A88 - one
>     note at a time.
>
>     In your example, I don't tune anything to anything because Cybertuner
>     has done all that checking (hearing partials, calculating stretch,
>     calculating overpull, etc - basically all the checks you - have - to do
>     aurally as - you - are tuning) in the first place and it - just - tells
>     me where to put the next note going up the scale.
>
> So what you're telling me is that you do NOT check octaves aurally.
> But I thought you said you did, which makes you a "Hybrid" tuner. So
> do you check octaves aurally, or not?
> Wim
>
Apparently, you did not read my other posts carefully enough.

YES, I do check octaves aurally - just NOT as I go - I wait until I tune
the WHOLE piano.

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