<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; = FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 = rightMargin=7> <DIV>I even tried sitting astride the beast and tuning that way.  = That didn't work very well either.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bill Maxim<BR>Maxim Piano Service<BR>(803) 732-9225 - Cell (803) 609-4761<BR><A = href="mailto:wmaxim@sc.rr.com">wmaxim@sc.rr.com</A><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=McNeilTom@aol.com href="mailto:McNeilTom@aol.com">McNeilTom@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 07, = 2004 8:38 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Baldwin electric</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 = size=2> <DIV>Dear Colleagues -</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'd hoped there were no more of these 'beasts' extant!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'll second Don McKechnie's advice on technique for doing = this.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Good luck!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Happy Chanukah! <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face="CommercialScript BT" color=#008000 = size=4 PTSIZE="14" FAMILY="SCRIPT"></FONT><FONT lang=0 face="Lucida Calligraphy" = color=#008000 size=4 PTSIZE="14" FAMILY="SCRIPT"></FONT><FONT lang=0 face="Lucida Calligraphy" color=#000000 size=4 PTSIZE="14" = FAMILY="SCRIPT">~ Tom McNeil ~</FONT><FONT lang=0 face="CaslonOpnface BT" = color=#008000 size=4 PTSIZE="14" FAMILY="DECORATIVE"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face="CaslonOpnface BT" color=#008000 size=5 PTSIZE="18" FAMILY="DECORATIVE">V</FONT><FONT lang=0 face="CaslonOpnface BT" = color=#008000 size=4 PTSIZE="14" FAMILY="DECORATIVE">ERMONT </FONT><FONT = lang=0 face="CaslonOpnface BT" color=#008000 size=5 PTSIZE="18" FAMILY="DECORATIVE">P</FONT><FONT lang=0 face="CaslonOpnface BT" = color=#008000 size=4 PTSIZE="14" FAMILY="DECORATIVE">IANO </FONT><FONT = lang=0 face="CaslonOpnface BT" color=#008000 size=5 PTSIZE="18" FAMILY="DECORATIVE">R</FONT><FONT lang=0 face="CaslonOpnface BT" = color=#008000 size=4 PTSIZE="14" = FAMILY="DECORATIVE">ESTORATIONS<BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 PTSIZE="10" = FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>mcneiltom@aol.com<BR>vermontpiano.com<BR><BR>346= Camp Street<BR>Barre, VT 05641<BR><BR>802-476-7072</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></= HTML>