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

Gevaert Pierre pierre.gevaert@belgacom.net
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:40:23 +0200


Antares,

Like you said before "VT has change my life" , it has changed mine to.
Now I can  go for concert tunings without fear,
spend much more time setting pins/strings,
make fast and accurate pitch raises etc...
My clients are realy happy and so am I.

Before I knew the existence of this list  I was an aural tuner , spending up
to 3 hours for a tuning and rarely satisfied with the results. I didn't knew
of the existence of ear-plugs to, so afther 3 tunings I was about half dead
(and deaf)
So one more time, thanks to you folks for having learned me about the
Verituner, ear-plugs and many more things in our fantastic job.

Pierre Gevaert,
Belgium.
----- Original Message -----
From: "antares" <antares@euronet.nl>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:42 PM
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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