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[Thomas D. Seay, III]

Hi Greg,

Each beat per second is roughly equal to 4 cents. Hence, 440 bps - 
435 bps = 5 bps X 4 cents = 20 cents. Your offset was pretty close, 
I'd say.

Best wishes,

Tom

>Greetings folks,
>    I recently tried to tune an older instrument that seemed as though
>it was designed for 435. I went about it in an unusual way. Since I'm
>just dense enough not to remember the formula I had to figure out how to
>offset the ETD to read for 435. In TuneLab (check out the new TuneLab
>PRO) I used the mouse on the left side of the floating boxes window
>until the frequency said 435. When I did that the offset read -19.79.
>Does this sound correct to you folks or did I mess up again?
>    o.k. that's one more item off of my to do
>list............................
>
>--
>Greg Newell
>Greg's Piano Forté
>12970 Harlon Ave.
>Lakewood, Ohio 44107
>216-226-3791
>mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net


Tom Seay
Piano Tech Office
School of Music
The University of Texas at Austin
(512) 232-2072
mailto:t.seay@mail.utexas.edu