Hi Michael, So you can set it to 0.1 of a hertz, or ??? At A4 440 to 441 is just about 4 cents. I don't have TLA but have used a Sanderson Accu Tuner, and currently use Reyburn Cyber Tuner. Both share the specification for accuracy that I mentioned from the SAT site. Both of them use a "band pass filter" so only listen to a particular partial of a particular note. The limits of aural testing verge on 1/10 of one cent. For unisons it is a whole different ball game. You might wish to search the archives for "coupled motion of piano strings". I'm not a Verituner user, so can not speak to what it offers from any hands on knowledge, but it is my understanding that it listens to several "partials" of a single note and displays them in real time on a spinner by using a Digital Sound Processing Chip. At 08:50 PM 10/14/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hello Don Rose >Unless you have one of these TLAs it is difficult to comment really. I have >the TLA and I do know that I can set it to any note/pitch/freq. - say 443.5 >or 398.6 or whatever. Just one decimal place. The end result is what >matters, as I've said before. Interestingly enough I went to a piano parts >supplier many years ago when EDTs, were just coming in, and asked about the >frequency band width of that early unit (TOLV - remember it?) "Oh" they said >"It doesn't register anything other that the selected note" Have we now come >full circle with the Verituner? >Regards >Michael G (UK) > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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