Tunelab97 Question

[euphoniac@juno.com]

Greg,

I'm sorry that it took so long for me to write back with my Tunelab97
questions.  Today was the first day that I actually tried to tune a piano
with Tunelab.

Question #1:

Are you actually supposed to make the black squares stop in order for the
string to be exactly in tune?  I was able to get close to making them
stop, but there was still some movement.

Question #2:

When I get ready to exit the program after I have tuned a piano, and it
asks me if I want to save the file, what is it that I'm actually saving? 
Am I saving the inharmonicity or everything that I did during the tuning?
 If it is the inharmonicity that I am saving, when I tune this particular
piano again, will I need to measure the inharmonicity again?

Question #3:

While in the "Autoselect" mode, as I tune higher than A4, Tunelab doesn't
seem to change the octaves in A5 and above.  Should this be happening? 
Is there something more that I need to do maybe in the calibration area?

I look forward to hearing your responses.

Thanks again,

Don Palmire

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:24:33 -0400 Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
writes:
> Don,
>     I certainly don't know all there is to know about anything and
> especially TuneLab but, what do you need? Most stuff is pretty 
> straight
> forward. It didn't seem that way to me initially but it does now.
>     If you start by tuning C1 and then measuring it ("M" key) and 
> then do
> that for all the "C's" up to C7 you will have done enough 
> inharmonicity
> measurements to build a tuning from. At this point press "F1" and go 
> to the
> Graphical tuning editor and then press "T" for a template. Use the 
> options
> page from the Graphical editor to set your tuning preferences and 
> then go
> back to the editor and drag the ends of the template around until 
> some stuff
> lines up the way you like it. This will take a fair amount of
> experimentation but once you get used to the way you want to see the 
> curve
> line up you'll get a real nice tuning from it.
>     I know that was really general but you didn't exactly say what 
> you
> needed either. Feel free to write again.
> 
> Greg
> 
> euphoniac@juno.com wrote:
> 
> > I know this sounds silly, but does anybody have some suggestions 
> on how
> > to understand AND use all of the features of Tunelab97?  I realize 
> that
> > there appears to be no users manual and the help section doesn't 
> seem to
> > give enough info for my finite mind.  Any help would be 
> appreciated.
> >
> > Don Palmire
> 
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> 
> 

Don Palmire
Euphonium
The U.S. Army Band ("Pershing's Own")
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