I agree. A machine isn't everything and no matter how hard we try, the human ear is awfully hard to beat in the end. Greetings, I don't really know why my name is attached to this topic, but I am not the only machine pitch raiser around here! I do a better tuning with my machine and ears combined that I do with using only either. On a large, well-scaled piano, the difference between the two is academic, until you get to the unisons. If a person doesn't know how to manipulate the octaves via machine, then the ear will produce a more integrated tuning. However, the finest ET in the world will still be passed over in favor of a mild Victorian style of key color, whether it is done totally by machine or not, so I am not too caught up on massaging the last 1/2 cent correction into an ET. I consider it pointless. Regards, -- Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090807/8ac501db/attachment.htm>
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