[pianotech] Verituner Help...

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Clearly not so <GG>
SAT lll after Becoming educated by the Verituner through 3 years of use and
applying that logic to the SAT!
One pass is all that is needed with a little touch up and awareness of the
over pull needed for different kinds and construction of pianos. A lot also
depends on how one can pull the instrument up while leaving the unisons spot
on.
I understand a that there may be an SAT lV on the horizon. Cant imagine
anything easier to use than the lll.
Reason that I never used the Cyber machine and went back to the ll was the
display made me dizzy, so did the ll for a month. The lll display is easy
for me to cheat high or low following my feeling of a need to change during
a pitch raise and listening to the increase of beats warning of a need to
change.
Spinets need less overpull as do ply wood sound boards, very large grands
can be greased pigs to get ahold of <g>
Learning how to use the tool we have and feel comfortable with can be fun
and challanging at the same time.
Gotta go and play my tuba with the kids!
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Sivak" <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Verituner Help...


> Duaine
>
> Clearly, the Cybertuner must be superior to the Verituner.
>
> Tom Sivak
>
> --- On Tue, 12/16/08, Duaine & Laura Hechler <dahechler at charter.net>
wrote:
>
> > From: Duaine & Laura Hechler <dahechler at charter.net>
> > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Verituner Help...
> > To: pianotech at ptg.org
> > Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 11:42 PM
> > Ron, et all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Why would anyone waste the time to do a two-pass tuning,
> > when it can be
> > done in one.
> >
> >
> >
> > I tune in one pass, using Cybertuner,  then do a final
> > unison check.
> >
> >
> >
> > Everyone that I know that has Cybertuner, tune in one pass.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards, Duaine
> >
> >
> >
> > Ron Koval wrote:
> >
> >
> > #yiv1170064676 .hmmessage P
> > {
> > margin:0px;padding:0px;}
> > #yiv1170064676 {
> > font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}
> > Oh I forgot about the markers.
> >
> >
> >
> > The Verituner has built-in, or user set overpull markers.
> > When tuning,
> > you should
> >
> > see a line appear where the pitch is before tuning.
> > (don't adjust the
> > pitch until
> >
> > you see it...)  Then you can set to display one, or all of
> > the
> > over/under pull triangles.
> >
> > The percentage amount depends both on the type of piano and
> > your tuning
> > technique.
> >
> > These can be enabled in both coarse or fine mode.
> >
> >
> >
> > I use 12, 21 and 33 for bass strings, plain wires up to
> > strut break,
> > above strut break for
> >
> > Baldwin uprights.  You might reduce the amount in the top
> > 1/2 octave.
> > The idea is to
> >
> > allow for the pitch to drift back down as the structure
> > takes on the
> > load of pulling the
> >
> > pitch up to 440.
> >
> >
> >
> > My goal is to have a fine tuned piano after a single pass,
> > when I then
> > check in fine
> >
> > tune mode.  Mostly, I fail... BUT I DO get lots of strings
> > that are
> > right on.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ron Koval
> >
> > Chicagoland
> >
> >
> >
> >   You live life online. So we put Windows on the web. Learn
> > more about Windows Live
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Duaine Hechler
> > Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
> > Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> > Reed Organ Society Member
> > Florissant, MO 63034
> > (314) 838-5587
> > dahechler at charter.net
> > www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
> > --
> > Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years
>