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I tried a lot of that while I still owned it, but it takes half again
as long to do all that programming and checking to make sure it
works...not something you want to do much of when you're at a
customer's house. Then you still have to test it on every piano to make
sure <i>that </i>style works for <i>that </i>piano. Watch, test,
watch, test, watch, test...so I said to myself, With all this testing,
why not tune it by ear and get it over with?<br>
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What would really revolutionize the ETD industry is a device that would
be able to automatically select the optimum stretch based on the
initial inputs. The Verituner sort of claimed that's what it does, but
obviously it doesn't since one must program it with a host of different
styles to get the results that satisfy the ear.<br>
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OK, I'm finished with beating the horse of aural vs. ETD, but it would
be fun to discuss the merits of an ETD that would automatically
calculate optimum stretch. I'm not a programmer, but it would seem
reasonable to begin such a project with the RCT approach of gathering
partial info from several test notes first, then developing the one
optimum tuning curve from there. It's just not realistic to think one
will get a great electronic tuning from only two notes in the middle
section of the piano.<br>
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But I will say that having the VT forced me to think harder about aural
work, and that has helped me with the typical problem pianos such as
the Baldwin 243 and the Wurlies.<br>
<br>
JF<br>
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Jon Page wrote:
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial">>And I never could get it
to do a decent job on most lesser consoles and<br>
>spinets.P.S. I'm not mad at anyone who uses an ETD. It just didn't
work well for me.</font></div>
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<div>You were using the wrong stretch on the smaller pianos.</div>
<div>Go to the VT forum and check my latest styles.</div>
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Jon Page</div>
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