<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> What gets lost/forgotten/never learned in this recurring discussion is just what "teaching to the test" does for the general concept of what makes a good tuning...  There are plenty of tuners out there, as well as some CTE's that are comfortable stating that the master tuning is a process that tunes the piano the "best it can be".  <div><br></div><div>Well, no...  It is a process to apply specific partial matches to transfer the temperament out to the rest of the piano.  In effect, this controls the tuning by matching a single partial from each note of the octave (6:3 4:2 and 2:1)<div><br></div><div>Maybe that's why so few tuners seem to achieve the "wow factor" when it comes to tuning.  And of course if you test this tuning with the same checks used to make the tuning, you can "prove" it is perfect - yet still may not be close to what the best in the industry are aiming for.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Ron Koval</div><div>chicagoland</div><div><br></div> </div></body> </html>