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[Don]

Hi Devlon,

Yamaha made a spinet for many years. It was the best of the worst, and the
action could be removed without unhooking 88 "devils". I saw a brand new
one in 1976.

At 10:41 PM 8/18/02 EDT, you wrote:
>Brian, that is an OK idea if the piano that you are tuning is a piano that
is 
>in the ball park height wise (hopefully, somewhere scale wise as well).
Stay 
>away from spinets with this machine especially as Yamaha, to my knowledge, 
>never made one.  So there is not anything even close for them on the
PT-100.  
>Your mentor probably wouldn't let you practice on one at first anyway.  The 
>stretch in the bass on many spinets can get dramatic to make the tuning
sound 
>good.  The PT-100 tunes the bass narrow to me anyway, so this would be even 
>more of a problem on many spinets.  But, to more directly answer your 
>question on using it in the temperament area only, that is about the only 
>place you can get away with using it, and again, on some pianos.  I have 
>found that it is "acceptable" in the treble/high treble on some pianos.  
>Bottom line here is as soon as your ears (aural checks, tests) hear a 
>discrepancy with this machine go with your ears.
>
>Good luck - Devlon
>
>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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