David, What was your clue that the intervals were too wide? What intervals are you aurally using to keep tabs on the tuning? David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/21/01 at 3:47 PM David Love wrote: >I started using an SAT III about a year ago. I find it to be a useful >tool, >certainly not an ear substitute, but useful. I always take new FAC >readings >for each piano and I am confident that they are taken accurately. Yet I >often find that as I progress through the piano the scale that the machine >calculates from those readings is off. When there is a problem it is most >often noticeable in the 4th and 5th octaves (or going down in the bass). >The >octaves in this section are invariably too wide and not just by a little >bit--clearly objectionable. For example, today I tuned a Steinway L recent >model. When I got to this problem section I set the pitch initially by >the >ETD and corrected to the flat side by ear. Oddly, when I got to the sixth >octave, the problem seemed to correct itself, i.e. the machine's scaling >was >now correct. This implies, of course, that had I tuned strictly by the >machine, the 4th and fifth octaves would have been calculated too wide and >the 6th octave too narrow. What gives? Is it possible that there is a >problem with this machine? Is this sort of anomaly a regular occurrence? > >One more question. When one alters the DOB on a page, does that >alteration >stay on that page even if you save a new FAC to that page? Or, when you >save >a new FAC reading to that page does it default back to its original >setting? > >Any input is appreciated. > >David Love >_________________________________________________________________ >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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