---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dear Colleagues - I'd hoped there were no more of these 'beasts' extant! I'll second Don McKechnie's advice on technique for doing this. I had 26 of these objects, in two classrooms, in my care when I was at SUNY Fredonia. They were being replaced just as I was leaving ten years ago. I found that they quite defied any customary definition of being 'in tune'. And they sounded just about as bad 'in tune' as not! I chose three of the least troublesome ones, tuned them the best I could and recorded the tunings on an SAT. There were very large discrepancies for the resulting SAT numbers among the three. I somewhat arbitrarily discarded the wildest numbers, then used the remaining values to form a composite model tuning for all the Electropianos. Using the SAT I imposed this tuning on all of them thenceforth. I can't say it was any better than tuning them by ear, but I'm pretty sure it was no worse! In any case, it avoided having to make the maddening tuning decisions. A fringe benefit was that I could then sit behind the cussed things to tune them; that afforded easy access to the tuning pins, but poor access to the keys - which didn't matter at that point since I was just poking at 'em in sequence. Good luck! Happy Chanukah! ~ Tom McNeil ~ VERMONT PIANO RESTORATIONS mcneiltom@aol.com vermontpiano.com 346 Camp Street Barre, VT 05641 802-476-7072 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/77/78/b3/47/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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