OK, you got me. Good point. But might the deaf person have some developed ability to feel the vibrations of the note - at least good enough to get it near (and on the right partial)? Maybe? Like Beethoven did near the end of his life - he would put his ear to the piano lid so that he could hear/feel the music. Maybe not. Now a deaf tuner might have some good luck with a Verituner. The Verituner displays all the partials being detected. The tuner could simply look to see where the fundamental frequency is. I think. Maybe. It would require some close examination, but I suspect there would be a good way to go about it. Or perhaps it would be an insurmountable problem. Hey, isn't that what rebuilding is for? Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Swafford" <kswafford@earthlink.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:41 AM Subject: Re: SAT use > > On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 07:22 AM, Farrell wrote: > > > A large well scaled piano would likely get a nice tuning by the > > deaf/SAT tuner. > > Heresy. Think of stopping the display of a string -- but with the > string so far off that the machine was listening to the wrong partial. > > Kent Swafford > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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