ETD's accurate?

[antares]

OK, a simple answer to a complicated question :

I have used the Verituner now intensively for about 1.5 year.
This ETD 'gives' such a perfect tuning - every time - on all pianos, old,
new, beautiful, ugly, that I know that I never have to check whether it lies
or not.
I think the difficulty with ETD's, but also with tuning in general, has to
do with tuning technique.
If you don't know how to turn a tuning pin properly than tuning with or
without ETD's is useless.
I have learned to make a rock steady tuning, my precious Verituner does the
rest.
For those who have never tried a Verituner :
one tuning with this VT and you no longer have any doubts, nor do your
customers.




friendly greetings
from

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

"where music is, no harm can be"

visit my website at :  http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/


> From: "Ron Koval" <drwoodwind@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:41:33 +0000
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: ETD's accurate?
> 
> 
> OK, I said I wasn't going to do this yesterday, but today Ron N wrote this
> (unrelated topic) that woke me out of my cave:
> 
> <snip>
> Yes they do, but beyond a certain resolution the numbers don't mean much
> except as to how they interrelate with the rest of the scale. It's like
> ETDs. They're already more accurate then the pianos being tuned with them,
> with the difference in tuning results being how they're used.
> <snip>
> 
> OK, here is the BIG problem as I see it with discussing ETD's, the
> interchangeability of the words accurate and precise.
> 
> Picture one of those nice, Starrett rulers, with markings down to 1/64 of an
> inch.  Now, imagine measuring something like the knuckle distance that you
> wanted to get JUST RIGHT.  So you squint, and pull out the magnifying lens,
> or call your young-eyed kid over to get the BEST measurement possible.
> You've just gotten the most precise, but not an accurate measurement
> possible with that ruler, because that afore- mentioned kid was using your
> rule for a pry-bar and snapped off the first 1/4 inch.  He cleaned it up
> real good, you can hardly notice anything's missing.....
> 
> Accurate, however, relates to what's really there, or in the ETD example,
> where the note SHOULD be placed.  At this point there is a big difference
> between the calculations of the machines, even though they are all precise.
> So do you trust the precise, but maybe innacurate box?  How do you know if
> it's aiming at the right target?
> 
> questions
> 
> questions
> 
> end of today's rant
> 
> Ron Koval
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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