freedom from the whole shebang

[Susan Kline]

Hello, Ed.

Point taken. Two-piano concerts with a tight schedule, and massive
pitch raising, are the two tasks where I have thought that an SAT
might be nice to have.

Luckily, in my part of the world, I tend to look after the same
pianos and can keep them close. I decided early on that Newport would
be 440 land, and luckily visiting orchestras, so far, have had no
trouble with that.

If tuning for a two-piano concert, I try to have plenty of time,
even if it means pre-tuning the night before, so they're close enough.
(Luckily I only needed to do that once.) Then I move them so I
can reach both keyboards, tune the best one, then slave the other
to it, checking note by note, with cross checks. F to A on 1st,
F of 1st to A of second, vice versa, etc. It doesn't take as long
as it sounds like it would.

Living in a backwater has its benefits. Cordlessness, for instance.
Not that I don't admire people who can get through a slug of work
well, in a hurry.

Susan


At 10:22 PM 08/01/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Susan writes:
><< <<"Or ... you can use
>the internally programmable grey device. No switch, batteries rechargeable
>with hamburgers, no upgrades, no tangled cords, no blinkety lights, .....">>
>
>    Ah, yes, ears are wonderful things, but this morning, I had two concert
>grands to tune for a duo piano rehearsal.  One was freshly restrung and
>anywhere from 3 to 10 cents flat. The other hadn't been tuned for the last
>two months and was 14 cents sharp,(plus another temperament).  I had two
>hours to do the whole thing.
>     I don't think I would have been able to get it done, aurally.   The
>construction outside the building was loud,  the pitch corrections were
>drastic.  There was time for one pass each on these pianos, the SAT III left
>me with two tunings that were within 2 cents of each other at their worst, (
>right above the bass break and easily corrected in a few minutes),  and right
>together in most places.
>    They are just tools.
>Regards,
>Ed Foote RPT
>