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  • 1.  Tunelab "overpull" feature

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-25-2017 12:39
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    I've had Tunelab for a while now.  Still tune aurally most of the time but use it occasionally. I have used the overpull feature several times for pitch raises. But with back-to-school humidity being high and pianos being sharp I decided to try it for a pitch lowering for pianos that needed to be at A 440. This one,  a Boston GP193 was sharp average of 25 cents all the way except bottom 4 notes and top 4 notes. Used overpull measuring all the CEG notes. Attached screen shot shows where it is now as I prepare to tune it.  Most users on this piano would be satisfed as is. Great tool (in the right hands). :-)

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    Gary Bruce, RPT
    Bruce Piano Service
    Edmond, OK
    405-413-TUNE
    www.brucepiano.com
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  • 2.  RE: Tunelab "overpull" feature

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-25-2017 15:12
    Yeah man! Pretty SWEET for stuff like that!! I keep mine handy for this & "certain" pianos--especially in the top few octaves--like if there is like a plethora of false beats.

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    [Kevin] [Fortenberry] [RPT]
    [Staff Techician]
    [Texas Tech Univ]
    [Lubbock] [TX]
    [8067783962]
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  • 3.  RE: Tunelab "overpull" feature

    Posted 08-25-2017 16:50
    In my experience, I would discourage using pitch modification software created by anyone, particularly if I did not feel comfortable playing the piano in front of clients when completing the tuning. As a rule I do test the tuning when done by playing, and though colleagues consistently rave the pitch changing capability is the greatest reason to use an ETD, having listened, following the advice of those colleagues, and used the ETDs for pitch changes, as a pianist, unlike those same colleagues, going on to test the results, I have learned my colleagues are wrong without knowing it, unable to play.

    Pianos respond to pitch changing in a whole menagerie of ways. The only way that can be dealt with is an inflated reputation to compensate for errors, or developing the ability to account for the different characteristics of models and makes of pianos one by one on site evaluating cents of deviation and getting a sense of how to respond accordingly aurally. I would be out of business using the pitch modification software I tried for years to make work for me and not me for it. I got tired of tuning pianos all over again after the software failed at pitch modification.

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    Benjamin Sloane
    Cincinnati OH
    513-257-8480
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