piano-tuning software

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Alex Beamish wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mr Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> My wife and I are expanding our guitar lessons business to include piano
>> tuning. She will be getting a Peterson Strobe tuning machine. I, however,
>> will get a laptop with CyberTuner software. Before I get a Mac notebook to
>> run the software I thought I would at least /look/ at linux. What inspired
>> me to look at linux was that I saw an ASUS notebook at Krazy Krazy that
>> comes loaded with ASUS linux. Of course it comes with a Windows CD as well
>> (I guess to bail if you don't like linux). Does anyone know of piano-tuning
>> software that works (for sure) in linux?
>>     
>
> For sure? No.
>
> However, a minute with Google produces ..
>
>   http://piano-tuner.sourceforge.net/
>   
Okay, 'm trying to install this. What Am I doing wrong?

chris at cpc:/tmp$ tar -zxvf piano-1.1.tar.gz
piano-1.1/
piano-1.1/README
piano-1.1/piano.h
piano-1.1/term.h
piano-1.1/filter.h
piano-1.1/filter-i386.h
piano-1.1/AUTHORS
piano-1.1/COPYING
piano-1.1/ChangeLog
piano-1.1/INSTALL
piano-1.1/Makefile.am
piano-1.1/Makefile.in
piano-1.1/NEWS
piano-1.1/TODO
piano-1.1/aclocal.m4
piano-1.1/config.guess
piano-1.1/config.h.in
piano-1.1/config.sub
piano-1.1/configure
piano-1.1/configure.in
piano-1.1/depcomp
piano-1.1/install-sh
piano-1.1/missing
piano-1.1/mkinstalldirs
piano-1.1/mkcostab.c
piano-1.1/mktonetab.c
piano-1.1/main.c
piano-1.1/costabf.c
piano-1.1/term.c
piano-1.1/demod_fine.c
piano-1.1/demod_piano.c
piano-1.1/tonetab.c
piano-1.1/refreq.c
piano-1.1/piano.1
piano-1.1/piano.spec
piano-1.1/htmlup
piano-1.1/index.html
chris at cpc:/tmp$ cd piano-1.1
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/tmp/piano-1.1/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/tmp/piano-1.1/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) mawk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler 
cannot create executables
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ ls a-
ls: cannot access a-: No such file or directory
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ ls -a
.           config.guess  configure.in   depcomp        INSTALL      
missing        piano.1     term.c
..          config.h.in   COPYING        filter.h       install-sh   
mkcostab.c     piano.h     term.h
aclocal.m4  config.log    costabf.c      filter-i386.h  main.c       
mkinstalldirs  piano.spec  TODO
AUTHORS     config.sub    demod_fine.c   htmlup         Makefile.am  
mktonetab.c    README      tonetab.c
ChangeLog   configure     demod_piano.c  index.html     Makefile.in  
NEWS           refreq.c
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ vi README
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ INSTALL
bash: INSTALL: command not found
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ sudo make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
chris at cpc:/tmp/piano-1.1$
> It might be worth your while to download it and try it out to see if
> it's worth basing a business on.
>
>   
>> This has to be something that works. I can't do one of these things like
>> when I screwed around for six months trying to record on the E-MU 1212m pci
>> in audacity (in linux) only to find out later that in fact there was no
>> fully-functional linux driver for that card. I need this to work - we are
>> taking over a huge client list for the piano-tuning. We want the software to
>> speed things up (over the ear-only method), not to slow things down.
>>     
>
> To my mind, if you have a solution that works, but you're thinking
> about betting the business on finding a Linux solution, that sounds
> like a really poor bet. Go ahead and use the Mac solution that works,
> but go ahead and tinker with the Linux solution as something to keep
> in your back pocket.
>
> Good luck -- piano tuning is not for the faint-hearted.
>
> Alex
> (former piano student)
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