Yes, I will do this experiment when I get time. Right now I'm swamped with player work. Also, I will need to check the pitch pipe because it is pretty old, like 25 years, and I'm sure it was in tune when I first got it. Duaine On 11/10/2012 08:25 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > Duaine. > Instead of us answer the question, "can a pitch pipe be used to set a temperament?", why don't you figure this out > your self. You use a RCT, which is a very good ETD. Program the RCT as if you were going to tune the whole piano. > Then take a pitch pipe and tune the temperament octave, matching the piano as close as you can with the pitch pipe. > Then check the temperament octave with what the RCT says. No cheating. If the RCT is not dead on with each string you > tuned, then you've not tune the temperament correctly. > Duaine, many of us have a lot more experience tuning pianos, and have been doing it far longer than most of us care to > admit. Don't you think that after 40, 50 ,or even 60 years, the collective us have tried almost every means possible > to tune a piano, and have found that the best way is still tuning the piano using the senses God gave us. There is > nothing wrong with using a ETD, but in the final analysis, it's our ability to hear to music of the piano that > produces the best results. I don't understand why you won't accept that. > Wim > -----Original Message----- > From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> > To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> > Sent: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 4:07 pm > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Possible adaptation for the Tuning Exam > > A pitch pipe can be tuned with an ETD. Also, the pitch pipe is an octave, so > that would cover a temperament. > > OK, so if the pitch pipe is not accurate enough, then how about pitch forks for > setting the temperament ? > > Duaine > > On 11/10/2012 07:14 PM, John Ross wrote: > > How about a pitch pipe isn't accurate enough. > > What is wrong with you using a tuning fork? > > You are just talking about one note, right? The C or the A. > > Setting a temperament, is more than one note. > > Or, am I misunderstanding, your understanding, of what a temperament is? > > John Ross > > Windsor, Nova Scotia > > On 2012-11-10, at 8:00 PM, Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net <mailto:dahechler at att.net> > <mailto:dahechler at att.net <mailto:dahechler at att.net?>>> wrote: > > > >> Why can't several of you stop bashing me and stick to the frickin' subject at > hand. > >> > >> Or maybe, just maybe, you did not understand the subject so here it is again. > >> > >> Why can't a pitchpipe be used to set the temperament ? > >> > >> So let's try and stick to the subject, please ? > >> > >> Duaine > >> > >> On 11/10/2012 05:15 PM, paul bruesch wrote: > >>> And it has always, without fail, fallen on "deaf ears"... so quit responding > to this drivel and move on. Maybe, just > >>> maybe, if no one ever responds it'll quit coming. > >>> > >>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jason Kanter <jkanter at rollingball.com <mailto:jkanter at rollingball.com> > <mailto:jkanter at rollingball.com <mailto:jkanter at rollingball.com?>> > >>> <mailto:jkanter at rollingball.com <mailto:jkanter at rollingball.com?>>> wrote: > >>> > >>> I know many of us have tried to tell you this many times over the years, > but this is in fact the bottom line. > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Duaine Hechler > >> Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding > >> (314) 838-5587 /dahechler at att.net <mailto:dahechler at att.net> <mailto:dahechler at att.net <mailto:dahechler at att.net?>> / > www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com <http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com> > >> <http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com> > >> Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years > >> > > > > > > > -- > Duaine Hechler > Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding > (314) 838-5587 /dahechler at att.net <mailto:dahechler at att.net> /www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com <http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com> > Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years > -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler at att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years
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