![]() ![]() Lo and behold it worked! At least well enough to not hurt my ears until the pro can get hear and really get it dialed in. After sampling the lower and upper registers, I could visually see how the octaves were stretched and could pick a point on the +/- measurement that followed the pattern. Finally, desperate for at least a “survival” tuning to hold me until the pro can get here, I tried this app. I’m not a trained piano tech or tuner but I tried (in vain) to get that middle section at least close using the upper and lower registers as a point of reference but I just couldn’t figure it out well enough to get the temperament restored. ![]() Tuner can’t get here for another week so I just needed something to get buy. I reached a point where I just could not stand my piano due to the middle section (where the kids bang out their music) being so out of tune. Truthfully, the free app works so well I would have been happy to pay for it. I don’t know what extra benefits the paid app provides other than no ads which are very unobtrusive in a thin bar at the top of the screen. It is so sensitive that I caution everyone to make sure there is no ambient noise in the room while you’re tuning. The app is simple to use and extremely discerning and sensitive, even to very small adjustments. The tuner was able to distinguish between the uppermost 4 notes which all sounded identical to my ear. And, as I heard, the last octave was at least a quarter to a half step sharp. I first tested the app on middle A and sure enough it read 339.9, close enough to A440 to which the piano was tuned. As any pianist knows, the uppermost octave is particularly challenging to tune by ear because the strings are so short and the tone is so tinny. So after ordering a tuning kit, I downloaded this app. It was so bad that it was just too painful for me to wait for him to come back and fix his mistake. Admittedly, most of us don’t play those notes that often but when they’re out of tune, you realize you play them more than you think. It was horribly sharp and the last 5 notes sounded the same. I had my piano professionally tuned 2 weeks ago but my tuner must have spaced out on the last octave. ![]()
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