ETD's; selling RCT and Mac powerbook

[James Grebe]

Hi Clyde,
Do not give up.  Experiment with the different OTS choices. and partial
choices.  Give it some time.  You already know that tuning aurally you have
to make compromises within your own scheme and you do the same thing with
RCT.  There is no perfect system.  I use OTS 4 on just about everything and
I am happy with the results.
            James Grebe
R.P.T. and M.P.T.
 from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
                  Creator of:
 Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
                  and
Practical   Piano    Benches
"Tranquility Base"
E.T.A.     April, 1999
-----Original Message-----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@redrose.net>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: ETD's; selling RCT and Mac powerbook


>This came as a surprise to me when I started using RCT several weeks
>ago.  I was led to believe that RCT would improve my tunings greatly
>over what I could do aurally, so it was demoralizing to finish a tuning
>and think, "Whoa!  I don't like this at all!"  I suppose this is covered
>in the manual that comes with the software, but I am having trouble
>taking the time to read it all.
>
>Does it work, after the tuning is calculated, to just do a couple
>octaves aurally in the tenor break area and follow RCT for the rest?  Or
>are there other helpful hints?  (Oh, yes, the piano in question was
>definitely scale-challenged!  :-))
>
>Clyde Hollinger, RPT
>Lititz, PA
>
>Alan McCoy wrote:
>
>> 5. Bass/tenor break and related scale-challenged pianos: I'm not sure
there is
>> a clear winner here either. You just can't stop using your ears and the
>> computer between your ears. Some pianos just require unacceptable
compromises -
>> either there is a glitch in the thirds and sixths, or the octaves,
fifths, and
>> fourths are terrible, or all of the above. The SAT uses the 4th partial
and 6:3
>> octaves into the bass, and RCT lets you choose the 3rd or 4th partial and
the
>> 5th or 6th partial. I have tried both. If there is an advantage here I
believe
>> it is with RCT because you can choose your poison. With both machines you
have
>> to devise some method of compromise. I can't stand bad octaves or bad
fifths so
>> I tend to favor them, but in so doing my thirds don't progress smoothly
(what
>> the hell - some pianos just have outrageous glitches!)  For this region
of the
>> scale it is often simplest to just do it by ear rather than with either
>> machine.
>
>