Kent Swafford/....ETD generated tuning and refines it."

[w peterson]

I agree with you the Verituner gives a beautiful tuning the very first  time
that you use it. It is extremely easy to use, reads all of the notes without
fussing, and you will never believe how easy it is to use until you try it.
I have tried the others

Bill Peterson former SB Chapter
----- Original Message -----
From: antares <antares@euronet.nl>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Kent Swafford/....ETD generated tuning and refines it."


> And I totally agree with you Richard, and it is very hard to describe
these
> things in words.
>
> However, aside from a little stretch, a little more stretch or no stretch,
> the 'average' VT tuning is just stunning every time all the time.
> Hence my continuing positive remarks. If we (generally speaking) can agree
> on the fact that a 'most beautiful' ET tuning, a tuning that would
certainly
> qualify for any tuning exam with flying marks, can be made every time and
on
> any instrument (because it adjusts itself to every piano entity) than I
say
> that this ETD is 100 % reliable. The more so because it has proven itself
> day after day and month after month and every time the result is bingo.
>  'Most' tuners, after having tuned just one time with the VT, agree
> immediately and are in awe, just like me, and this is my personal opinion,
> and also 100 %.
>
> I am not a 'hero' with technical terms, I am just an everyday
> tuner/technician and base my tuners opinion on my musicality and my
> experience.
>
>
> friendly greetings
> from
>
> Antares,
>
> Amsterdam, Holland
>
> "where music is, no harm can be"
>
> visit my website at :  http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/
>
>
> > From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> > Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:41:01 +0200
> > To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Subject: Re: Kent Swafford/....ETD generated tuning and refines it."
> >
> > Having never heard an expert  tuning done with this device I must
reserve
> > comment a bit on its abilities. But I will say that in my experience
there is
> > no such thing as a 100% accurate tuning. The
> > concept simply does not relate to anything in the real world.
> >
> > There IS a rather large variety of ways to specify what a "tuned" piano
is and
> > this even within the realm of equal temperament tuning. The US exam will
> > specifies a pretty clearly defined tuning /
> > stretch, yet there are many RPT's who do not tune this way.
> >
> > The problem with viewing what a tuning is in such a narrow way is that
it
> > simply closes off any avenue a tuner may choose to take that lends
itself to
> > creating differening effects with a tuning. A
> > most simple example would be to point out the different effects created
by
> > differing stretch amounts. When it comes down to it, and within
reasonable
> > parameters... the only thing "right" or
> > "wrong"  or "accurate" in this sense about a tuning are consistancy
related
> > issues, and issues relating to how well the tuner succeded in
accomplishing
> > what he/she meant to accomplish.
> >
> > MHO
> >
> > RicB
> >
> > Farrell wrote:
> >
> >> The statement in the quotes was not mine. I was quoting from another
post.
> >>
> >> But.......100% accurate? What does that mean? Everything (especially
with
> >> pianos) is a compromise. Any compromise can lean in one direction or
another.
> >> 100% accurate? I don't think it applies.
> >>
> >> Terry Farrell
> >
> > --
> > Richard Brekne
> > RPT, N.P.T.F.
> > UiB, Bergen, Norway
> > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> >
> >
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