Great question, Wally, The mixed breed tunings I've done for 3 /4 pianos were all pre-ETD and involved all 9's. (2 Ds, SD10, SD6). I had a lot of "fun" melding them with multi-moving to check against the primo(the better D). You need a lot of room to do a "star" tuning. Post ETD acquisition gang tunings mostly involved 2 NYC and 1 Hamburg, so a single setting was quite acceptable. There is a way to merge/average two tunings into a composite on RCT, but as the need never arose after I got it, I haven't studied up on it. It's certainly an option I wish I'd had. My normal double tunings would be to put the best combo tuning on each, then aurally reconcile differences with preferences going toward the Primo/larger as I was seated between the two and could reach both keyboards. In one practice room which had an SD10 pitted against a P22, I just did the best I could on each with only A440 in common. (there is a point of diminishing returns! - I may be dumb, but I ain't stupid.) Conrad Hoffsommer Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:57:36 -0800 From: afinetune at yahoo.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Synchronous tunings Conrad Hoffsommer recently said (referring to his use of an ETD): -I can tune multiple pianos together without having to move them around to access both (or 3) keyboards simultaneously. My question: Do you keep the same ETD settings for the first piano as the second, even if they are different makes or models? I have one customer who has 2 Yamaha 6 footers side by side. I tune one with my ETD, then keep the same setting for the other. When I check them together afterward (I STRETCH my arms wide), there are usually a few notes that don't quite match. When I was an aural tuner, I sometimes hired my teenage daughter to sit at the first tuned piano and play the notes while I tuned the second. Wally Scherer ------------------------------------------ A FINE TUNE - Piano Tuning & Repairs Wallace T. Scherer, piano technician, music educator 5020 Canal Drive, Lake Worth, Florida, 33463-8014 Telephone: 561-432-4121 Web page: http://aftune.angelfire.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-FINE-TUNE-PIANO-TUNING-REPAIRS/129845010366185 ------------------------------------------------ FREE TICKETS: http://aftune.angelfire.com/freetics.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110128/7e6c884a/attachment.htm>
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