SAT Mystery

[Walter Gramza]

I appologize that I didn't catch the entire post regarding the chipping
with the sat.  I have been tuning by ear for the past thirty years and have
been told that one should learn to tune by ear prior to purchasing one of
these machines.  What if the machine breaks while tuning how would one
finish???  One can buy many tuning hammers,  mutes,  tuning forks,  felt
strips, for $1800.00 or so.  
As far as documenting where the piano was found to be pitch wise place it
in your customer file via computer or file card and the next time you go
back hit the tuning fork and the note on the piano and see where it is and
begin tuning from that point.At 06:01 AM 12/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Lynn,
>
>At 04:04 12/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>Well, I am going to open a panderers box.  If you can tune by ear, why 
>>would you even consider purchasing such a device??? I don't think it is 
>>any faster, and I chip pianos as I string them, and after 3 tunings, in 
>>the first sitting, the piano is stable.  Lynn Rosenberg
>
>
>I'm in a particularly Monday mood this morning, so I'll stir up the 
>hornet's nest a bit.
>
>This list is supposed to be a panderers box.  Most of us on it pander to 
>the wants and perceived needs of our customers with regard to acoustic 
>keyboard instruments (that set of chord bars on the autoharp could be 
>considered a keyboard, couldn't it).
>
>As far as _Pandora's Box_ is concerned...  I'm an unreconstructed, 
>unrepentant and unashamed aural tuner who has been saying the same thing 
>for years.  I'd also add that my wallet is not used to ever opening very 
>widely.  So, IOW, if you don't yourself see a need for something, you are 
>highly unlikely to purchase it. (significant other pressure 
>notwithstanding...) Or, to put it in the "bottom line" perspective, if you 
>don't see any financial/physical/emotional advantage to having a machine 
>take away some of the thousands of tuning decisions necessary to tune a 
>piano, you won't buy it.
>
>That said, I have seen occasions where an ETD could have helped.
>*Tuning S&S D, Bald SD10 and SD6 together for performance of Bach Triple 
>Klavier...
>*Touchup of harpsichord at intermission in noisy 1500 seat hall...
>*Touchup of S&S D at intermission in noisy 1500 seat hall...
>
>Snowsuit.. er.. ah.. flamesuit in place.
>
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