Rick: As Wim has said, you need to stop the lights. However, on some pianos, spinets in particular, there is so much false beating in the top octaves that it is practically impossible to get this to happen. Plucking the string will sometimes give a clearer tone and reading. Sometimes you just have to accept the inadequacies of the instrument, do the best you can, and let it go at that. Patrick C. Poulson Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild ----- Original Message ----- From: Willem Blees To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Accu tuner readings Rick Yes, the lights have to stop in order to have the piano in tune. I don't know how long you've been tuning, but when I first started tuning with a SAT, I found that my upper octaves were not where I usually tuned them. But after a while, I discovered I was actually tuning those notes flat. The SAT made me hear how the notes are supposed to be. Give your SAT a chance to educate you. But more important, make sure you're tuning the right note, set to the right octave. It's very easy, sometime, to just look at the lights, and not the note and octave setting. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080214/adff0f30/attachment.html
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