Hello list! I'm an pianotechnician living i Stockholm, Sweden. I went on-line about two months ago and one of the reasons for doing it was the opportunity to get the information and the discussions on pianotech I knew was going on there. One of first things that struck me reading this list, was that some things seemed to be universal in the world of piano tuning, and chiefest among them, the war over tuning machines. Yes, we have the same tuning machine debate here in Sweden. The issues are not exactly the same, but the strong feelings are. No serious, qualified tuner in Sweden uses any tuning devices . We are educated, well sort of brought up on aural tuning. As far as I know, there are practically no SAT:s in Sweden sofar. The only one I know of is the one currently standing on my desktop, bought in by the Swedish Association of pianotuners and -technicians SPTF (I'm a member) a couple of years ago. The idea was for evaluation and use in the SPTF test. Sad to say, it has mostly been gathering dust, but know I'm using it on the road, trying to learn how to use the thing. And after using it for a while, the same thing happened to me that I believe (from reading the list) happened to every tuner who starts using the SAT:=20 I had to say to myself, how did I manage without it? I want to thank everybody for a very interesting list, and specially Mr J Coleman and Mr F Sturm for their recent SAT articles which answered some of my new beginner questions. Mr Sturm's article on the F-number nicely solved the problems on the plain steel/wound string transition in the low treble part. A lot of the pianos I tune are small and not so well scaled. In a way I feel I have the best use of the SAT in those pianos. Hope I got the english right. My very best regards =D6sten H=E4ggmark Pianotechnician SPTF Stockholm Sweden email: haggmark@algonet.se =20 =D6sten H=E4ggmark haggmark@algonet.se
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