Going digital?

[Jason Kanter]

Tunelab, tunelab, tunelab.

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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Best <jb at bubblemusic.com> wrote:

> I've been tuning my temperament octave in C ever since I started with
> Aubrey Willis's correspondence piano tuning course at age 12.  I'm 52 now.
>  Since moving to Prescott AZ from NYC my spinet to grand ratio has at least
> doubled.  I was struggling with a really cheap console the other day and I
> said to myself, "boy, this would be working a lot better if I were doing it
> a major 6th higher where the strings have less inharmonicity."  And I was
> wondering what it would take to learn a new temperament technique.  But then
> I thought, why don't I just download StroboSoft for my PowerBook for 80
> bucks.  How can that be anything but more precise.  I used to think that
> tuning the temperament was part of the art of piano tuning.  At least the
> customers must think it's magic as I play all these interesting combinations
> of notes.  Or I could spend another grand and get visual assistance for
> those pesky top few notes.   Anybody have experience with StroboSoft?  The
> web site says it's not too reliable for the far reaches of the piano but I
> would just use it for the temperament.
> Jonathan
>
>   Jonathan Best
> jb at bubblemusic.com
> 928-830-4887
> www.bubblemusic.com
>



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