<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>You've got to know aural tuning to get your RPT; that's why I went to North Bennet Street.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Modern ETDs with microphones that measure each individual piano are light-years away from the Strobo-Tuners of the past.  I use TuneLab for pitch-raising (one pass, every time), and then fine-tune by ear.  All the recent discussion of estimating pitch raise percents aurally shows the worth of a good ETD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>You need to have a knowledge of aural tuning to get the best out of an ETD: setting octave styles, and so on.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>--Cy--</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><STRONG>shuster</STRONG>piano.com</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>