Terry & David, There is, in fact, a "recalculate" command which can be used at any time. VT obviously doesn't alter the calculated pitch of notes already tuned during the course of a tuning, even though the additional data that it accumulates could potentially improve those notes. The improvement happens when you do a followup tuning or, alternatively, whenever you hit "recalculate." Paul Larudee Farrell wrote: > Because, as I understand it, if you do a one-pass tuning the VT only sees > each note once, and, for example, the calculated pitch of notes near the > temperament (the first notes tuned) do not take into account the > inharmonicity of strings in the upper and lower registers. > > If you save that tuning, the VT also saves (effectively at least) all the > inharmonicity information for all 88 notes. If you recall this info and > start tuning that same piano six months later, the VT already knows the > inharmonicity of all 88 notes. Therefore the first calculation for the first > string you tune will be better than the first time because it will be making > compromises regarding how 3rds, 5ths, 4ths, 6ths,10ths, octaves, double > octaves, etc. are going to blend in with those first notes. I would assume > that the second time around, the temperament would be slightly different > that the first time through. > > As I understand it, each successive time you go through the piano with the > VT, it will refine the calculated tuning. > > Terry Farrell > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:44 PM > Subject: Re: Verituner > > > What would be the point of saving a tuning? If the VT measures as you go, > > why bother? > > > > David Love > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > > Sent: January 20, 2002 12:48 PM > > Subject: Re: Verituner > > > > > > > Hi Paul (or anyone familiar with the Verituner). How many tunings can > the > > > Verituner store? Assuming it is less than 1,000 or so, can you download > a > > > saved tuning to your computer easily? If so, then I trust six months > later > > > when you back to tune the same piano, you can upload that saved tuning > > from > > > your computer to the Verituner, and go tune that same piano and get a > > nicely > > > refined tuning (as though you did two passes that day) on the first > pass? > > > > > > What is it that is so whacko about the pitch raise feature on the > > Verituner? > > > What is it like? The SAT III pitch raise feature is actually a very > simple > > > thing, but it works pretty good (I have heard that RTC pitch raise works > > > very well). It's hard to imagine how it could be more primitive than the > > > SAT. > > > > > > Terry Farrell > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <larudee@pacbell.net> > > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > > > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:42 PM > > > Subject: Re: Verituner > > > > > > > > > > I confess I was expecting something quite different from Keith. I > also > > > had a VT > > > > that I returned within the trial period, but reluctantly and for very > > > different > > > > reasons. > > > > > > > SNIP > > > > > > > > Paul Larudee > > > > > > > > > > > >
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