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  • 1.  RE:TuneLab for Android Tips

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 02-20-2013 09:49
    We should have a really good panel on ETD usage at PTG 2013 in Chicago this July. Dan Levitan will chair it.

    Having crossed the divide from relying entirely on TuneLab to tuning completely aurally, I understand the effort required to go in the other direction. Please know that you don't have to go completely on autopilot when you use an ETD; it's just another tool. Most of them allow for extensive customizations, and TuneLab certainly does. I even use it to record and store aural tunings (and you can use it for the RPT exam, too).

    TuneLab asks you to measure iH, and then calculates a tuning curve from the result. You have great adjustability on that curve (see the documentation, which you download from www.tunelab-world.com). As a learning tool, take a piano that you've tuned aurally, and then tweak the curve to match (this is a little easier on the Windows version at present).

    I use it primarily to pitch raise in one quick pass, without mutes. I wind up doing this on nearly every single tuning I do (sometimes just the top two or three sections), even if I'm going to then do a complete aural tuning. Saves tons of time!

    The setting for "Auto partial selection" shows the highest note that TuneLab will do this on. The default is "A0", so it's effectively off. Try setting it up to at least "E2" (and limit it to partial 7 to start with). 

    --Cy--

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    Cy Shuster, RPT
    Albuquerque, NM
    http://www.shusterpiano.com
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