[pianotech] "wow" tuning; evolution of tuning.

[David Renaud]

Ron

  I recently started using verituner running on iPad.

  The "tweaking" and customization of tunelab tunings  I have been speaking about to smooth out progressions, following string Scaling, and quirks in a given piano is now a whole different ball of wax.
   Verituner produces very very nice progressions of intervals compensating as required to what is actually there. The negotiation is now with the choices of weighing and blending partial mixes to achieve ideal expansion for my perception/preferences.  I am trying the mixes you have suggested on the verituner discussion group. I'm really enjoying the verituner, giving me some excellent tunings. Still tweaking styles for different size/style pianos. 

     Verituner does indeed produce an aural style tuning, very accurate, very smooth, that can 
Be customized.  I love the iPad format also.

       Thanks for having shared your experience with tweaking partial weights. 
        Does that continue to evolve, or have you settled on what works for you best on any given piano in this regard.

                                                 Thank you
                                                 Dave Renaud 


                                   



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On 2012-05-14, at 10:43 AM, Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Duaine,  I aim for the "wow" factor for all the pianos I see...  No, really!
> 
> My piano teachers must've taken on a bunch of new students, because I've just finished a few weeks
> of new clients - many with pianos just as you describe - the worst being a 200 cent pitch raise...
> 
> They (mostly) know that the first visit is "clearing out the barn" - so there's less expectations in play.  Still, by using
> the methods I've outlined (no traditional aural skills required), partnered with the Verituner running custom styles, I 
> expect that the tuning calculation (if the piano were stable enough) would get me to a "wow" tuning.
> 
> Painless partnering with a glorified calculator.  You can apply the same techniques to get better tunings using any of
> the ETD's that measure inharmonicity and let you alter the stretch...
> 
> 
> Ron Koval
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> OK, enough with the "wow" factor. Where would you use such tunings ?
> 
> Symphonies, maybe, BUT, the piano is only one instrument in the rest of them.
> 
> For the average Joe like me, that tunes for home owners - who usually new to old beaters, and churches, who almost 
> never, have solos anymore - they are in some sort of a praise band.
> 
> So, the "wow" factor must be for those "elite" customers - who really give a damn about how a piano sounds - Right ?
> 
> Which I would probably refuse to tune for them............
> 
> Just sayin'
> 
> -- 
> Duaine Hechler
> Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
> Tuning, Servicing&  Rebuilding
> Reed Organ Society Member
> Florissant, MO 63034
> (314) 838-5587
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