[pianotech] Synchronous tunings

[Mr. Mac's]

Fellows,

I am intrigued by these approaches you've mentioned.

Two things come to my attention:
1) RCT merge/average feature you mention is really neat.
    I have used it in the past. Only one problem as I understand, it's only available with the laptop version.
   Which I say Shucks.

2) For some reason I have it in my head from who knows how far back,
    if I were to tune a console piano and a large grand piano on the same stage,
    and they were to be used together, that it's just best to each one
    to itself and everything would be okay. And I have done that ever since.

Even when I tuned for a 5 piano concert once in Fort Smith, Arkansas,
   where all the pianos were of various makes and sizes.

Sincerely,

Keith McGavern, RPT
pianostuff.kamcam.com


On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:

> 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
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> 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