Verituner

[larudee@pacbell.net]

Terry,

You're right on target.  One of the disadvantages is that the VT can only store
around 400 tunings as currently configured, and you cannot download to your
desktop.  However, Dave Carpenter said that he could add capacity for up to 2000
for another $150 or so.  If I had kept the machine, I would have gone for that
upgrade.

Your point about coming back in six months is exactly right.  The VT doesn't
simply parrot back the previous tuning, but builds upon it with the data from
the next tuning, continuously refining it.  However, if you're faced with a
significant pitch change, you'll still have to deal with compensating for it.

>From what I know of the SAT III, the VT pitch raise feature is not very
different, except that it only works in coarse mode and so you can't get it as
fine as with the SAT.  If you look at it, you'll see that it's really designed
only to prepare for fine tuning, not to be the final product, even in small
pitch raise situations.  What differentiates RCT is that it has overpull
percentages for each note in the scale, can compensate for variations in hammer
technique, and equalizes "spikes" or anomalies in the scale by averaging the
note with preceding notes.  That makes for a very refined result.

Farrell wrote:

> Hi Paul (or anyone familiar with the Verituner). How many tunings can the
> Verituner store? Assuming it is less than 1,000 or so, can you download a
> saved tuning to your computer easily? If so, then I trust six months later
> when you back to tune the same piano, you can upload that saved tuning from
> your computer to the Verituner, and go tune that same piano and get a nicely
> refined tuning (as though you did two passes that day) on the first pass?
>
> What is it that is so whacko about the pitch raise feature on the Verituner?
> What is it like? The SAT III pitch raise feature is actually a very simple
> thing, but it works pretty good (I have heard that RTC pitch raise works
> very well). It's hard to imagine how it could be more primitive than the
> SAT.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <larudee@pacbell.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Verituner
>
> > I confess I was expecting something quite different from Keith.  I also
> had a VT
> > that I returned within the trial period, but reluctantly and for very
> different
> > reasons.
> >
> SNIP
> >
> > Paul Larudee
> >