![]() Thing bout Verituner is that if you want to set the spinner to its highest setting you can tune the unisons much, much more precisely than any human ear can manage. Listening via a set of Maggies, as I write. Ipad 2, Verituner, Koval "Average" ET, Movo MA2000 U-Shape TRRS Omni-Directional Calibrated Measurement Microphone. There is more than one way to tune a piano. 1 pass.will go over it again later.Ībove post has the 2 EPT tunings for comparison. I had VT listen to 1 string for all 88 notes, single mute, minus the last octave of course, and then tuned starting at A0 to C8, with most of the unisons by ear. Ron suggested I stay in "Coarse" mode for the note calibration and tuning. This mic worked better than my uber expensive I436 mic, as the Movo had more gain! which worked really well, as it had plenty of volume showing on the Ipad, even in the upper octaves, and it was only $19! Used it with an extension cable, and hung the mic from the lid, kept in one place the whole tuning. What was very interesting is the low bass notes.most all of the wound bass notes, were 20-30 cents FLAT from what EPT had calculated! The rest of the piano was fairly close to EPT. Only had time for one came out quite nice. IN OTHER WORDS: BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO MAKE SURE ALL STRINGS OTHER THAN THE STRING YOU ARE MEASURING ARE SILENCEDĭid a quick re-tuning of the piano today using my Ipad 2 Vertituner, Ron Koval's "Average" Style, and chose ET. AND ONCE YOU START MEASURING, BE SURE TO PUSH THE DAMPER OF THE MEASURED KEY BACK DOWN BEFORE MEASURING THE NEXT STRING. MANUALLY PUSH ALL THE DAMPERS DOWN PRIOR TO MEASURING IH. Those partially sounding, or vibrating, strings will THEREFORE CONTINUE TO have an enormous impact on subsequent IH measurements.Ģ. Once the mute is removed, the damper no longer completely silences the strings!!! It's still out of position!!! ![]() that's where the trouble begins: Simply removing extraneous mutes is not enough!!! Sure, you say: "But I've TAKEN PAINS TO remove the mutes when I'm done measuring and before moving on to measuring the next key!"Īhhh. THE MUTED STRINGS ARE VIBRATING SYMPATHETICALLY WITH THE STRING YOU'RE TRYING TO MEASURE!!!! THIS FACTOR HAS AN ENORMOUS IMPACT ON INHARMONICITY MEASUREMENTS. (ANSWER) A MUTE MOVES STRINGS: THEREFORE THE DAMPER CEASES TO FUNCTION COMPLETELY WHERE A STRING HAS BEEN MUTED. ![]() IH MEASUREMENTS WILL VARY ENORMOUSLY BETWEEN PIANOS WHERE ALL THE STRINGS ARE COMPLETELY DAMPERED (NO MUTES IN PLACE EXCEPT ON THE KEY BEING MEASURED) AND PIANOS THAT HAVE, SAY, 2-10 OR MORE MUTES OR FELT IN PLACE WHILE MEASURING ONE KEY. MAKE SURE ALL THE DAMPERS ARE COMPLETELY KILLING THE STRINGS NEAR AND FAR FROM THE STRING BEING MEASURED!!! if I've discovered ONE thing from the advent of Entropy, it's this: I've been torturing myself about microphones and microphone position relative to the string you're recording.īut there's a little thing that's way more important, I think. It has to do with how one goes about measuring inharmonicity. Here's something really mundane that I've discovered, quite by accident. But Entropy, which is completely free, has me re-examining the whole business (dare I say "philosophy" or "set of basic (unrecognized?) presuppositions) of what it is to be "in tune". Entropy (Piano Tuner) has upped the game, hugely I think. ![]()
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