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

Farrell mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:49:01 -0400


"....I still havent heard a Verituner in action...."

They don't make much noise - except when you drop them, then there is a distinct thud, followed closely by "oh, sh%&!" and then after a minute or two "oh, cool, it still works."

Or at least that is what the manual says.  ;-)

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: Kent Swafford/....ETD generated tuning and refines it."


> Well NOW you're talking Turkey !!... :) Of course I can aggree with you as you put
> things here. Course I still havent heard a Verituner in action, but I have no doubt
> of your ears being able to constertate that it does the job as well as you state.
> 
> That leaves the more philological disscussion pertaining to the contiguous validity
> of aural participation in the tuning process over time, as the ears become less and
> less the primary instrument of validification. We may end up not able to discern a
> good tuning from a bad one. :)
> 
> But thats for the next generation of tuners to hack out.
> 
> Cheers !
> 
> RicB
> 
> antares wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> > "
> 
> --
> 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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