Hi Greg, Each beat per second is roughly equal to 4 cents. Hence, 440 bps - 435 bps = 5 bps X 4 cents = 20 cents. Your offset was pretty close, I'd say. Best wishes, Tom >Greetings folks, > I recently tried to tune an older instrument that seemed as though >it was designed for 435. I went about it in an unusual way. Since I'm >just dense enough not to remember the formula I had to figure out how to >offset the ETD to read for 435. In TuneLab (check out the new TuneLab >PRO) I used the mouse on the left side of the floating boxes window >until the frequency said 435. When I did that the offset read -19.79. >Does this sound correct to you folks or did I mess up again? > o.k. that's one more item off of my to do >list............................ > >-- >Greg Newell >Greg's Piano Forté >12970 Harlon Ave. >Lakewood, Ohio 44107 >216-226-3791 >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net Tom Seay Piano Tech Office School of Music The University of Texas at Austin (512) 232-2072 mailto:t.seay@mail.utexas.edu
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