[pianotech] Verituner Help!!!

[Tom Sivak]

You could certainly use Fine Tune mode, anytime at all.  If the piano is close to pitch, absolutely you should start in Fine Tune mode.  I'd still start out by letting the VT read A4, A3, etc. 

Even if the piano is flat, you can use still Fine Tune.  Just know that when the piano is more than say, 10 cents flat, it's going to end up a bit under pitch when you're done.   Counteract that by tuning everything 3 or 4 cents sharp on the first pass, and it should end up right on.   Make a second pass to clean up unisons or pull any errant strings up or down as needed, and voile!  It's in tune!

I ignore the markers.  I always calculate in my head 33% overpull on the steel strings.  Ten cents flat?  Tune it three cents sharp.   Twenty cents flat---7 cents sharp.   Make a second pass and you're done.

Tom Sivak
Chicago


--- On Tue, 12/16/08, jsmith3109 at aol.com <jsmith3109 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: jsmith3109 at aol.com <jsmith3109 at aol.com>
> Subject: [pianotech] Verituner Help!!!
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 6:44 PM
> Gentlemen:
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> Having trouble following directions in Veritune manual.
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> The piano is a Baldwin Howard in a school.  Not too far
> below pitch...about 5-7 beats. In the manual, the first
> directions say to measure the A-4 and then A-3 and then
> several notes on either side of these in the Course Mode.
> What do the markers mean? (in the Course Mode). If no pitch
> raise is necessary, do I have to measure first in the Course
> Mode and then move to Fine Mode, or can I start out in Fine
> mode and measure as above, and then start tuning? I
> don't understand where the machine(Verituner) gets
> it's info for raising the pitch, even a small amount for
> a fine tuning. The tunings I have done in the Fine mode seem
> to be OK, but sometimes, when finished, the pitch is maybe
> 1-2 beats flat from the readings I took in the machine from
> the beginning.Hmmmm Maybe tunings skills! I also have an
> Accu-Tuner, and with it I can set the tuner to check the
> flatness of the notes, press some keys and have the tuner
> set to raise the pitch as I go along.  Anyone with some
> explanation would be most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> jsmith3109 at aol.com