RCT TlabPro and SAT III

[Tim Coates]

Jim,

Thanks for the information about your testing.  There is one area of
interest I noted that should be clarified.  Ric Moody is a friend of
mine and I know he lives in SOUTH DAKOTA.  He lives two hours from me
(which out here is very close).  I don't mean to put down North Dakota,
but here is a difference.  Just ask the South Dakota football teams that
annually get beat up by the North Dakota teams.

Tim Coates
University of South Dakota

"Jim Coleman, Sr." wrote:

> Hi to all:
>
> This week I did a video tape comparing the RCT, the TunelabPro and
> the SAT III. Many people have suggested a Tuneoff between the
> three instruments several times on the pianotech list. As in the
> Tuneoffs with Virgil Smith I always predicted that there is not a
> dimes worth of difference between the tunings. Here is a chance to
> see for yourself. This is Coleman vs Coleman vs Coleman which rules
> out ego tripping. These videos are available from Superior
> Instructional Tapes now.
>
> Ric Moody stopped in to visit me yesterday. He drove down from
> North Dakota to visit his son who lives in this area. I utilized
> Ric as Camera man while taping the last segment of the above video.
> The neatest thing he did was to tune out the unisons after I did
> the machine tuning. He did a great job. I don't think I will tune
> my piano again for awhile.
>
> In the taping of the use of the RCT, I used a number 6 Octave
> Tuning Style (OTS). This worked out beautifully for my Steinway L
> in the treble. In the Bass, I departed from the program and
> demonstrated a method for getting pure 6-3 type octaves using the #6
> OTS.
>
> In the demo of the TLPro, I adjusted the Tuning curve to be
> similar to what I had done with the RCT and what I have determined
> from past experience works fairly well. In the SATIII portion I
> demonstrated the judiciout use of the Double Octave Beat (DOB) in
> achieving my personal preference for octave matching.
>
> I used many aural tests throughout so that the demo would not be
> so boring. 3rds, 10ths, 17ths, octave-5ths, double octave-5ths and
> M6ths, 3rd-10th-17ths were used often to show the smoothness of
> all of the tuning systems. Single, double and triple octaves were
> easy to hear, none perfect, but all well balanced to give a nice
> overall sound.
>
> Jim Coleman, Sr.