SAT "Ammunition"

[ROGERIO OLIVEIRA DA CUNHA]

Hello Nelson. I need some help in order to obtain information about how to
use the SAT II in mixtures. I am a tuner and I work in several pipe organs
on Brazil. Could you help me? Rogerio Cunha -Rio - IC Member of the PTG

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Nelson and Tracy Denton <ndenton434@bigwave.ca>
Para: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Data: Quarta-feira, 7 de Janeiro de 1998 03:59
Assunto: Re: SAT "Ammunition"


>At 05:55 PM 1/6/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>List,
>>
>>   I've decided to seriously try and get my *boss* to let me buy an SAT.
>>What I need is as much ammunition as possible as to ways that it would
>>benefit the university/School of Music, as well as ways it would help me
>>to do my job better/quicker/easier. Here are a few things I can think of:
>
>
>Hi.  At the risk of making a fool of myself here (I'm going to assume that
>an "SAT"  refers to a  new model of strobe tuner.)
>I would heartily agree that an electronic tuner of any kind makes a great
>deal of sense.
>
>As a pipe organ builder I have to tune organs at all different pitchs and
>temperments (a420 + - 60%) depending on the time of year and temperature.
>For 20+ years I have been using a Peterson model 320  audio tuner to set
>the tuning ranks. ( On Pipe organs pitch is dependent on temperature as
>much as humidity is on pianos - actually they act more more like
>Harpsichords they never stay in any kind of tune).   This poor old thing
>has been droppped more times than I can remember and has been kicking
>around in my trunk every day for years in all kinds of weather. It is still
>in perfect working order.
>
>In pipe organ work an Audio tuner is much more versatile  than a Strobe
>tuner as the person tuning must look at the pipes while they are tuning.
>Attempting  to look at a strobe and tuning organ pipes while hanging by
>one's teeth in an organ chamber is not an easy thing to do.
>
>In the limited piano work that I have done I have found the tuner to be
>invaluable.  As a suggestion to all those who would like to purchase such a
>device, I can only suggest that if you are buying something to use  every
>day. Always buy the best machine that you can afford.
>
>You will never regret the money spent.
>
>My only regret is that my machine won't wear out and thus I can't justify
>the need to buy a new fancy one with all the bells dials temperments and
>whistles and a nice strobe so I can hear those upper notes and harmonics
>that are getting harder to hear every year.
>
>If your boss won't buy you one ( and even the most expensive Peterson model
>[http://www.peterson.com] is  far less than an ordinary grand piano) buy
>one for yourself.  In most countries you can write off the cost as a
>business deduction. (especially if you do free lance work outside of your
>full time job.)
>
>There are many different machines out there on the market from very cheap
>ones for tuning  guitars to expensive benchtop lab models with frequency
>generators,  digital readouts and fancy scales etc. .
>
>The best argument you could make is to tell your boss that you required
>several thousand tuning forks to give you an exact  pitch for every note.
>You still have to do the tuning on your own. The tuner just makes things a
>lot easier.
>
>That's all a tuner is  - a fancy tuning fork.
>
>As a recent newbie to this list I don't know if tuners have been discussed
>to death or not.  If not could  those who have one to talk  about their
>preferences?
>Nelson E. Denton
>R. A. Denton and Son
>Pipe Organ Builders
>Hamilton Ontario Canada
>
>http://www.freeyellow.com/members/radentonson