[CAUT] Pitch References

[Elwood Doss]

I tune aurally and use the Sanderson Accu-fork with excellent results.
It beats having to have 3 hands to set the starting pitch using a metal
tuning fork.  It has an LED low battery light that I really like.  I
will check it against the tuning fork on occasion.  It's always been
right on.  Pricey, but worth it.
Joy!
Elwood

Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT
Piano Technician/Technical Director
Department of Music
145 Fine Arts Building
The University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, TN  38238
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-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
william ballard
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:50 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pitch References

On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Chris Solliday wrote:
> Bill, a quick visit to www.accu-tuner.com should prove profitable  
> to you.
> Why are you fooling around with guitar tuners anyway? They are not  
> suitable
> for piano tuning except for hack work. Tune Lab Pro or Cyber Tuner or
> VeriTuner are contenders but not Kurg.

Thanks for the idea, Chris. I'm not the one "fooling around with a  
guitar tuner". I kept any details about the situation out of the  
query, so as not to prejudice any replies. Just leave it that I'm  
looking for people who have had to defend their pitch from a  
professional ETD against that from a guitar tuner.

(The one lapse from this neutrality  was ",,, how well would would a  
Korg hold to those specs after several years of kicking around in an  
instrument case". In the interest of full disclosure.)

Just for the record, I use a steel A fork, which gets backed up by a  
copy of RCT v3 which I bought nine years ago when I thought I might  
migrate from aural to ETD. Didn't happen, but the ole mac PB2400  
still boots right up and RCT functions jes' like back in the day.  
When I checked my fork last week, RCT reported 439.46Hz.

I've written to Dean to see if there's any reason to doubt  RCT's  
pitch reference when the app (and the machine it lives on) only get  
used once every few years. (I betting no reason to doubt.).

BTW, I still owe you a sasprailla.

mr bill
wbps at vermontel.net