[pianotech] phenomana - experiment.

[Susan Kline]

On 5/18/2012 8:19 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> My thought was that the master tuning process would be as close as 
> anyone would likely get to a repeatable aural tuning, that would be 
> anything like acceptable to the armchair believers. 

This brings up an interesting point. Aural tuners probably come in 
several flavors as far as the uniformity of their work is concerned. 
They would have to be tested a number of times to find this out. Some 
might be extremely uniform in their results, while others might vary a 
lot yet still produce musically acceptable results.

Obviously, having an aural tuner who has never been influenced by 
working with an ETD is not on your list of priorities.

Oh, well, it would have been interesting to see what effect working with 
a machine has, and whether someone who has never worked with a machine 
produces a qualitatively different tuning. For instance, do they set 
octaves exactly on a coincident partial, or do they actually avoid them? 
Does the choice of partial vary with the part of the scale, and does it 
change over at roughly the points the machine chooses?  -- but I can see 
that it would take a large sample number to come up with anything 
convincing.

The possible number of people who have never used a machine is shrinking 
by the day, as the gray heads thin out. I just received my third Social 
Security payment, for instance.

Never mind ... if no one else is interested, that's pretty convincing 
that it's never going to happen. To extract this kind of information in 
the future from old recordings would be damned near impossible, IMO.

Bowing out.

Susan Kline
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