An Introduction To Pianoscope - The Professional Piano Tuning Software For iPhone & iPad

Frank Illenberger, the creator of pianoscope, talks about his motivation for developing the app and demonstrates some basic functions: Setting up a new tuning, measuring the inharmonicity, floating the pitch, tuning with the red indicator, consistently tuning after the attack with the gray freeze indicator, displaying and filtering partials and the tone generator.
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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
0:00 Titles
0:15 Introduction
0:34 Why Did You Create the Software?
2:34 What Makes Your ETD Different From the Others?
3:15 Listening For Partials
6:25 What Features Are You Most Proud Of?
7:09 Picking An Optimal Concert Pitch
8:16 System Requirements
8:41 Setting Up A New Tuning
9:58 Measuring Inharmonicity
12:21 Tuning Curve
13:23 Deviation Curves
14:18 Tuning Scale
15:09 Tuning With The Red Indicator
15:35 Tuning With The Gray Freeze Indicator
16:59 Tuning With The Strobe
17:35 Tuning Unisons With The Freeze Indicator
18:02 Outro

[@musictypefoundry7345]

I can't speak highly enough of pianoscope. It has really transformed the way I listen to, plan for, and tune pianos. I also use it to conveniently keep track of my service visits in the notes section of the file! Very handy. Thank you for creating such an insightful, customizable, and instructive app that makes working on a piano intuitive and always educational.

[@pianoscope6345]

Thank you for the feedback. It is good to know that pianoscope is helping you in your work.

[@benjaminborg8499]

Hi Frank, I'm a new piano tuner and I love the user interface and functionality of you app. While I can only afford the standard version until I start making money from this, I do hope to get the full version soon. My question to you: is there a discount when you upgrade from the Standard to Pro version, or do I have to pay full price for Pro?

[@pianoscope6345]

Hi Benjamin, I am glad you like pianoscope. When you have the Standard version, you can always upgrade to Pro by just paying the price difference.

[@maxrey4055]

As an amateur tuner I am really enjoying your app. Night and day difference in comparison to others I have tried, but could you explain in more detail the optimized concert pitch function ? Why is the result optimal? I have yet to use this function and didn't realize it was even available.

[@pianoscope6345]

Thanks, I am glad you like the app. The concert pitch calculated by the optimization function is optimal in the sense that it is the one for which you need to make the fewest changes to the string tensions, so that it requires the least amount of work from the tuner. This approach is also known as "floating the pitch". Naturally it only makes sense with instruments that are not too flat. If an instrument is very flat you should use the pitch raise function.

I'm not a specialist in piano tuning at all, what do 10:5 8:4 6:3 etc octaves refer to ?

[@pianoscope6345]

This is the common notation for the so-called coincident partials in octave intervals: If you play two notes simultaneously on a piano in an octave interval, the tenth partial of the lower note coincides with the fifth partial of the upper note, this is abbreviated with 10:5. These coincident partials produce beats. The tones of a piano are inharmonic, which means that the frequencies of the partials of a note are not equally spaced. Therefore, if you reduce the beating in one interval (for example 10:5) you increase the beating in another interval (for example 2:1). So the problem of tuning a piano is to find a tuning curve which reduces the beating in the most relevant tuning intervals.