and Elwood it is more likely that your tuning fork will change than your Accu-Fork. Chris Solliday ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elwood Doss" <edoss at utm.edu> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pitch References > 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 > 731/881-1852 > FAX: 731/881-7415 > HOME: 731/587-5700 > -----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 > > > > >
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