<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1250"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bgColor=#ffffff>I'd say a 30 cent pitch raise and the tone change from the added tension might have been the big difference to your clients ears...<BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Alan Barnard" <TUNE4U@EARTHLINK.NET><BR>To: "ilvey@sbcglobal.net, "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 7/10/2006 10:04:40 AM<BR>Subject: Blatent commercial endorsement ...was Tuning<BR><BR> <DIV> <DIV align=left>David I. asked: 'Just out of curosity, what sort of areas are you tweaking aurally?'</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cy talked about Tunelab and most PR being one-pass.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now this points out two of the things that I absolutely love about Tunelab:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1. Pitch corrections are astoundingly accurate, even big ones.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2. The curves it calculates are also excellent. I've had occasions where I wanted to tweak things and then remembered to check the list of computer-calculated inharmonicity</DIV> <DIV>constants, found one or two inconsistent, remeasured those notes (or nearby notes, instead) and come up with a curve requiring no tweaks. Also, on small pianos, when the tenor-bass octaves sound "off", I set it on "split-scale" and get a beautiful tuning.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>True recent story: Lady has a Betsy Ross, ahem, that she bought new in 1945. When I was working on it (new elbows), she repeatedly said that she has never been happy with the way it sounds after tuning (can't imagine why). I tuned it, split-scale, after a 30 cent PR and thought it sounded not-too-bad. She played it and was absolutely thrilled.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've said it before and--at the risk of sounding like a commercial--I'll say it again: I cannot understand why anyone pays so much more for other ETD's. It can only be because they never tried TL.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Hopelessly lost but making excellent time</DIV> <DIV>... in or near Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>