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<DIV>Dear Colleagues -</DIV>
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<DIV>I'd hoped there were no more of these 'beasts' extant!</DIV>
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<DIV>I'll second Don McKechnie's advice on technique for doing this.</DIV>
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<DIV>I had 26 of these objects, in two classrooms, in my care when I wa=
s at
SUNY Fredonia. They were being replaced just as I was leaving ten year=
s
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 ch=
ose
three of the least troublesome ones, tuned them the best I could and recorde=
d
the tunings on an SAT. There were very large discrepancies for the
resulting SAT numbers among the three. I somewhat arbitrarily discarde=
d
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 benefi=
t
was that I could then sit behind the cussed things to tune them; that afford=
ed
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>
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<DIV>Good luck!</DIV>
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<DIV>Happy Chanukah!
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