On 1/29/2011 6:43 AM, Ed Foote wrote: > The recording session went well, and Yo Yo Ma commented that > it was a fine tuning. Just how far does a machine have to go to be > "quality"? How nice for you, Ed. I just addressed this. I might point out that you knew the instrument, you no doubt had used the machine on it before, and you would have known if the tuning had not been adequate, and done something about it. I assume the piano was something fine as well, which offered the machine little challenge. Using the ETD, even the nice new ones, on anything with 88 notes surely calls for a little bit more judgment? And those are the kind of tunings which someone without aural skills will mostly be doing. I remember thirty years ago when techs defended the original Sight-O-Tuners and used them daily, with less than stellar results. They seemed sure that their work was just as good as aural tuning, as well, some of them. Many of their customers were not equally impressed, though. We're still fighting the public perception that machine tuning sounds inferior. I do tell anyone who says this that the new ETDs work far better than the old ones did. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110129/6adbf10b/attachment.htm>
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