[CAUT] using as ETD, was Re: Too tall!!??

David Ilvedson ilvey at sbcglobal.net
Sat Apr 10 09:13:09 MDT 2010


How do you know your within 3 cents?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 4/10/2010 12:53:14 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD, was Re:  Too tall!!??


>I agree that a pitch raise is a very good way to use Tunelab.

>However, Cy, you've never seen this aural tuner take on a new piano 
>at A430 without overshooting. I don't get within three cents 
>throughout, but a lot of it ends up fairly close after one pass.

>Susan the Dinosaur ......

>>Or anyone who does a pitch raise.  I've watched aural tuners take a 
>>new piano at A430, just do a normal temperament and tuning at A440 
>>without overshooting, and wind up with a piano with the middle five 
>>octaves in tune with A about 435, and the bottom and top octaves sharp.
>>
>>I do a one-pass pitch raise with TuneLab, no mutes, bottom to top, 
>>in less than 20 minutes, that leaves every string within about three 
>>cents.  Then my aural tuning is stable.
>>
>>--Cy--
>>
>>Cy Shuster, RPT
>>Albuquerque, NM
>><http://www.shusterpiano.com>www.shusterpiano.com
>>
>>On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Susan Kline wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>Almost immediately I could feel my stress level go down. In the 
>>>>past, every fall, between church and work, I was a total stressed 
>>>>out wreck by the time Christmas came around. But the year I used 
>>>>the SAT, I actually enjoyed Christmas.
>>>
>>>
>>>Stress?
>>>
>>>I suppose anyone who feels stress while tuning should get one ...
>>>
>>>Susan Kline, aural dinosaur
>>>
>>>


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