Richard Brekne wrote: > ...What I am proposing leaves all > the decicion making to you, would simply re-enforce and for that matter help build your > aural skills with out costing an arm and a leg, and without taking up very much space. Richard, The beauty of RCT, IMO, is that it does so much of the decision making for you and does it so well, leaving you to sit back and make the overall, artistic judgments. If you look at an RCT tuning in the graph window, it is very smooth - it keeps everything in perspective. An aural tuning, recorded and displayed as a graph, jumps above and below the line since it is "buffeted" by individual interval tests. When I started using RCT and became confident of its abilities, I thought that I had given myself a promotion to Tuning Supervisor and that I no longer had to do the work of testing each note. I only had to choose what kind of octave stretch will work in a given situation, decide if I like how the bass/tenor break is managed and spot check every so often as I go. Once you learn how to get the machine to do what you as an aural tuner do, it just does the job and rarely should you need to do any retuning. The amazing thing about having this machine is that my aural skills have improved and not atrophied. I can tune the extreme bass and treble areas much better than before and I've learned that it's important to establish an overall tuning plan that works (macroscopic view) rather than going from note to note in a microscopic fashion. Best of all, my ear/brain aparatus is not overtaxed by doing so many "manual" tunings and I actually feel like playing the piano when I return home. Concerning the cost, I still have both arms and both legs. To quote LaRoy Edwards: if you have the right tool, the customer pays for it. If you don't, you pay for it. Yes, it is expensive (compared to, say, a tuning hammer) but if it's worthwhile... Tom -- Thomas A. Cole, RPT Santa Cruz, CA mailto:tcole@cruzio.com
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