Hi again Bernhard I suspected that you had used your Only Pure method, and I also expected that the jury was going to judge using standard aural tests, and had imagined that accounting (at least partialy) for the results. As for the rest of what you replied... thats about par for most of the Tune off's I've heard about. Kind of renders them rather useless in the end. Which is too bad too.. because it should be rather doable to contrive a fair and controlled experiment to more accurately gauge what these kinds of tests attempt to illustrate. Thanks for your in depth reply. Cheers RicB --------------------------- Shortly said, the Tunelab tunig won the race with the votes for the aural tuning. The explanation: The left piano was named "Piano B" and was tuned with the help of Tunelab. The right piano was named "Piano A" and was tuned by me aurally (Onlypure method, Pure 12th tempereament) 30 votes were given by piano tuners, who did not know what piano was tuned in what manner. Unfortunately they get a paper with two columns, with the left column named "Piano A" and the right column "Piano B" There were 5 criteria: Unisons, temperament, bass stretch, treble stretch, and overall impression, for every criterium on could to vote for one or the other instrument.
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