Hi Clyde, All the edt's do take some small amount of time to set up. They also so far as I know all take time to "resolve" their display. My ears can hear a "beat" start to happen and I often have a "sixth sense" of whether the string being manipulated is flat or sharp, so the "resolution time" is near zero. When I use an edt I end up verifying the results "aurally", so it takes me longer. I almost "never" use my edt to tune unisons--this task is better suited to the ear, and if I do try to use an edt I don't like the results. I feel this is due to imperfections in the piano. I also find that in the extreme bass my "ears" like fairly wide octaves. With RCT that means using the custom overpull to "tweak" the calculated tuning. I also find that "stored" tunings are rarely much use at the concert level, partly because of the extremes of climate that I live in. I do have several for "just in case" at various R.H. levels. Don't get me wrong--there are times when the edt has "saved my bacon". I would not dream of not having one available to use....which reminds me of a tuning some years ago where due to mis communication I had to do a concert tuning while an orchestra was rehearsing the Brahms academic festival overture. Bacon saved! In the home I tend to always use an edt and 99% of the time I use a pitch correction mode. It offers the client less than a concert level tuning but at the same time allows over compensation for the drop in pitch. I do generally tune the bass aurally as it is annoying to "tweak" RCT to where my ears want it. For musician clients I try to have them listen to various types of octaves and try to fit their tastes rather than my own. As I have mentioned before I have one client who prefers 2:1 octaves in the bass of her piano right down to A0. Sounds horrible to me but "ideal" to her. At 07:26 AM 12/30/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Don and list, > >I'd like to raise a question about the "longer if I use an EDT" line (assuming >you meant ETD, electronic tuning device). > >Does anyone want to comment on why tuning with an EDT should take longer, which >is also the way I find it? My hunch is that, for average pianos, the human ear >is more forgiving than an ETD is, especially at the ends of the keyboard. >Therefore a person has to work harder to get those lights or spinner to stop. >Regards, >Clyde Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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