[pianotech] Tuning, was advertising

[Thomas Cole]

RCT has a way of interpolating smoothly between bass and tenor. I don't 
know how it's done but it seems to spread out the wolfs well enough to 
be tolerable without any help on my part.

Tom Cole

On 1/27/11 6:40 PM, John Formsma wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com 
> <mailto:tcole at cruzio.com>> wrote:
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>     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
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> 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.
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> 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
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