Keith, Do you have OnlyPure on an iPhone of PPC? Al - High Point, NC On Jan 31, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Mr. Mac's wrote: > Hi Ed, > > A confession for your comment, "I'm up for anything." > > I'm a pretty simple minded person. It doesn't take a lot for me to embrace ideas > that will, in my mind, benefit the community I service, the primary account being, > Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. > This account has been in the family since 1949. > > The Fine Arts Department is very forgiving in my direction > when it comes to tuning the pianos, and are the best folks ever, > so I feel the need to stay ahead of the game, so to speak, by giving them the > best the industry has to offer, hence, buying and experimenting > with every single ETD technology has to offer. > In the process I have settled on RCT and OnlyPure. > > I don't remember the exact date, but I would have stayed with > the Sanderson Accu-tuner if they had only been able to provide > the SAT III when it was first announced. For some reason there > were problems with delivery schedule. > > However, I was ready to move to the next level and became impatient. > This is about the time when RCT was becoming more on the forefront than ever. > So I went with Dean Reyburn's baby and have never regretted it since. > > The initial main attractions for me with RCT were the pitch raising features > and auto-note advance. This was not available with SAT back then. > As you know, you had to manual advance, use a foot pedal or a thumb switch. > > In the meanwhile I shortly worked with Verituner initially because of claims > of it being able to accommodate the bass/tenor break. However, > I just couldn't get on board with the overall operation, and couldn't seem to > get the consistent results I was accustomed to in, so I let it go. There are others > who say they are very pleased with the results, and I think that's fantastic. > > I also downloaded TuneLab (what a great deal) primarily because of Richard Brekne's > experience. That didn't pan out for me either, though it has some extremely neat features. > > So when Bernhard Stopper came onto the scene with OnlyPure. > He said completely different things about his software from all the others. > I decided what he offered was extremely unique from all the other devices/software thus far. > > Now, going back to wanting the best the industry has to offer for the pianos > at this university. I had to invest and find out. My decision stands that this > OnlyPure provides the best tuning that I shall ever be able to achieve at this point in life. > > See if I can finalize this now: > OnlyPure is so sensitive, however, that my hammer technique > had to be improved beyond belief. I made a decision to apply its uniqueness > on the three Steinway Concert Grands only. The method of madness I used > to implement OnlyPure was to strip mute each of those pianos, bring the piano > to pitch, then tune all the single strings to OnlyPure, then record that to RCT > I made three passes to verify no strings changed position before recording them > > Now, I use OnlyPure via RCT. Wrong or right, that's where I am today. > > Extra: > Something Kent said about the unisons. I just went and reread Bernhard's webpage. > Looks like I am going to do a bit more exploring in that arena, especially with one > of those stage pianos. Numerous false beats because of bridge termination issues. > Never thought to try and use OnlyPure for those areas. Should be fun. Thanks, Kent. > > Best, > > Keith McGavern, RPT > pianostuff.kamcam.com > > > On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Ed Foote wrote: > >> Keith writes: >> The significant two features that made me say what I have were: >> 1) The hammer technique awakening (truly remarkable) >> 2) The equal temperament experience (contiguous thirds, didn't mention that) >> >> Other that Ed, I got nothing to offer. >> Fairly disconcerting offering on my part, don't you think? >> >> >> Greetings, >> I'm up for anything. One thing I can be accused of is always having had a problem with the status quo. I was intrigued by the idea of a machine being more equal than the SAT. I suppose it depends on how they are used. The SAT defaults to an even ascension of beating in the thirds, but it doesn't have to be used that way. I have used mine to line up the thirds, at some small and usually imperceptible cost to the evenness of the fifths, and then compared it to another in which I allowed the thirds to suffer some irregularity to create a bunch of fifths that sounded alike. I wasn't able to tell the difference in the triad, only by clinical examination, which isn't closely related to musical values. The way Bill Garlick demonstrated was the fudging of both thirds' and fifths' evenness, forming the temperament's compromise on more than one dimension. >> Seems like this would be a good class topic; have two identical pianos, see if there is a perceptible difference. I've seen a lot of them listening to two temperaments, but two machines? That would be of interest to me. Rooms full of piano techs always exhibit more personality when there is something hard to detect. >> Studio tuning is different, no stretch in the bass, etc. I have come to recognize the profound difference there is between a SAT stretching in the bass and what my ear would have me do. The machine likes a wider octave down there than I do. I have also had my hair stand on end listening to octaves so stretched that you could see through them, while their creator stood, beaming by the bench, exclaiming how brilliantly clear theyt sounded. He probably uses way too much hot sauce, too. >> For all our microscopic examination, I've never had a pianist mention thirds and their evenness. The clarity of the octave has more of the stage, and with ET, stretching is about all, (beyond volume) one can do to create some stimulatory effects. I think it burns some emotional sensitivity out of the listener, but that is another thread. >> Thanks for the post, >> >> Ed > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110131/41675e37/attachment.htm>
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