etd tunings

[Lee Sankey]

You can't tune a Baldwin Acrosonic.

Lee Sankey
San Diego
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: etd tunings


> FWIW, I tuned a Baldwin Acrosonic today for a new client. First time I
have seen the piano. It's one of those 40" or so spinets. She says she knows
for a fact that it had been at least 12 years since the last tuning -
because the last time was when she was in CA. Sounded pretty convicing that
she was sure of the timing. When I talked to her on the phone, I told her
that she could expect to also pay for a pitch raise.
>
> Darned if that thing wasn't just about right on the button on each note.
95% of the notes were easily within 2 cents of target (Verituner). There
were only a half-dozen or so that were perhaps 4 cents off. Only the bottom
octave was a bit flat - up to 10 or 15 cents.
>
> Amazing.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leslie W Bartlett" <lesbart1@juno.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: etd tunings
>
>
> > > I'm curious how the discussion led up to your friends "boast".  Were
> > > the two of you, perhaps, comparing the pitch raise accuracy of his
> > > RCT and your TuneLab?  I've pitch raised with both, and find that
> > > RCT gets me closer, more often.  In other words, after a single pass
> > > 100 cent pitch raise with RCT, I have less to do on the next pass
> > > than with TuneLab.  Your thoughts?
> > >
> >
> > The family is one whose standards in all things musical is incredibly
> > high, and the dad/technician is one whose technical skills I envy.  Yet,
> > all I've heard bantered about on the list suggests that "things"
continue
> > to stretch and shift for "awhile" afterwards, and I can't imagine such a
> > major change staying solid.  He may be able to do it. His clients are
> > generally playing the better pianos, as he sends a number of the
"lesser"
> > ones to me.  I've not heard one of those major pitch raises which he's
> > tuned, so can't say anything except his expressed opinion.  I'm one who
> > questions, not one who thinks he knows..........  though I did have my
> > first major outdoor tuning venture last weekend for John Tesh. The piano
> > sat outside in the pavillion for eight hours before the concert, and
was,
> > for me, at least, a difficult challenge, an opportunity dropped in my
> > lap.  I asked him "if" it was acceptable, and he was quite
> > gracious.............
> >
> > As to the TL/Cybertuner thing, the PRO version has a modified way to do
> > pitch raises, the percent of overpull manually being set in different
> > sections of the piano. I also "cheat the program" a bit, depending on
the
> > distance out of tune, and I seem to have pretty good luck. I'm a
> > committed TL user, for the same reasons I'm a committed Guild person.
> > Both have given me what I know. Both have been effective in raising my
> > hopes and my standards.  Neither forces me into "politics".  TL leaves
> > enough stuff for the tuner to mess with that it's still "his" tuning, in
> > the end. Since the tuner, not the program, is either given credit or
> > criticism for the final result-  I like what TL offers. I've never used
> > Cybertuner, and only used an SAT a couple times, but I like TL with its
> > graph plus moving blocks.
> > les
> >
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