On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com> wrote: > > One of the advantages of Cybertuner (I can't speak for the others) is that > it is better than the ear for tuning smaller, poorly-scaled pianos. The ear > tries to do a perfect tuning, which is an impossible task, especially over > the break, but the ETD can do a very *acceptable* tuning (or, borrowing from > Al Sanderson's parlance, you want to be equally unhappy with every note). > This is also an opportunity to convert the tuning to a Victorian temperament > if people are mostly playing in the easy keys. > > Tom Cole > > Um ... I disagree with that first statement. It needs qualification. Totally depends on who is doing the tuning: both the aural tuning and with the ETD. I haven't used RCT, but used the Verituner for a couple of years. After I finally woke up from that drug, and began to listen again, I found that it was less than satisfactory on the scale-challenged pianos. There were workarounds and advice offered on mystic tongue-holding, but I couldn't make it work to my satisfaction. Well, take that back. I could have. But the time it took!! You had to use special "programs" that blended octave styles. It was never certain whether that one would work for your piano, so then you had to tune several A's first to see if it would work. And you might have to tune sections of the piano first to see if it would work over the break. Then change if it didn't. That's when I decided if it was that much work to get it done correctly, I'd just go back to aural tuning. Heck, I was now listening anyway ... why ... not ... just ... listen? I agree with the second statement. Yes, an ETD is very convenient for non-equal tunings. -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110127/0eeea5b9/attachment.htm>
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