ETD's accurate?

[Farrell]

Did I sell you a good AccuTuner or what Hazen! See, I told you it worked well.

My understanding is that the AccuTuner will come very close to an optimal tuning on a large well-scaled piano straight from the FAC calculation. Large well scaled instruments have relatively little compromise in developing their stringing scales, and the FAC calculation comes very close to matching those scales. It will be a rare situation where the FAC calculation will work very well without aural touchup on a small piano where many compromises were required in developing the stringing scale.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HazenBannister@cs.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: ETD's accurate?


> Hi,
>  I tuned the Steinway concert instrument a Erskine College,where I'm the 
> tech-tuner with my Accutuner,FAC tuning from A0 to C88,stopping lights, 
> listening, but changing nothing to disagree with the machine.I had the next 
> day, a good friend,and one of the better aural tuners in our chapter,who was 
> down doing some voicing work with me,tune the piano again,just to see how 
> much difference there would be.He could not believe it,as he hardly moved a 
> pin.He said the tuning,was excellent,and if he was not sight impaired,he 
> would own one.I'm not saying do this always,but sometimes artistic doesn't 
> come into play,it's making a living.You must be able to trust your 
> instrument,and know when it doesn't work.
> Best,
> Hazen Bannister
>