Hi Ed:
How does the Pianoscope compare to Pianometer? Do you like it better?
Paul McCloud
San Diego
Ed Sutton
Colleagues, I'd like to call your attention to a newly created tuning app called Pianoscope.
You can read about it in an extended discussion on PianoWorld
Novel Piano Tuning App
You can also go directly to the product site
pianoscope | Professional piano tuning for iPad & iPhone
The designer is offering a public beta test, two weeks free at no charge.
He has been very responsive to suggestions and is improving the app almost daily.
The program reads and produces a weighted average of up to 10 partials, and designs a tuning that balances large, medium and small intervals.
It can read inharmonicity in one second, so you can use the default sampling of all As and Es in about 15 seconds, or you can add as many sampled notes as you want, up to all 88 notes, taking less than 2 minutes to sample. This makes the program potentially very useful for tuning spinets and poorly scaled pianos.
It offers many options to design your desired tunings, including a pure twelfth tuning, and more are promised. It calibrates pitch raises and saves sampled pianos in transferable files. It produced a very clean pure 12th tuning on my 6' grand piano, and I will try it on a U-1 later this week.
Since I'm not tuning outside my home, my choices of instruments are limited, but I'm impressed by my tunings of my piano and of a very odd harpsichord which did not tune well using my usual ETD. I actually wish I had a spinet for a test of the app.
The program does not "buffer" the readout of the sound as much as most ETDs, so you get a picture that shows the pitch deviation of the sound over time. Once I understood what was happening and decided on my "target time," I became comfortable with the readout rather quickly. (You can choose up to three ways to display the pitch.)
So, if you're interested in tuning pianos, I suggest you take a look.
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Ed Sutton
ed440@me.com(980) 254-7413