FW: SAT FAC help please...

[Lance Lafargue]

Relax Richard, it was a joke.  Of course everyone should get their own FAC
#'s at each and every piano.  I thought it strange and made a joke.  Sorry.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Richard Oliver Snelson
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:59 AM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: FW: SAT FAC help please...


Yes time is money. Education and knowing the technical instrument you
are working with will make you even more money. As it  has  been said
several times measure the piano.

Lance Lafargue wrote:
>
> Patrick,
> If you tell us the FAC #'s we won't have to do it.  Time is $.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of J Patrick Draine
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 7:55 AM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: SAT FAC help please...
>
> Charly Tuner wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Hope those who attended the Convention had a great time..I wish i could
> have
> > had the opportunity to go!
> >
> > Anyway, i need the 3 FAC numbers for a 1949 36" Acrosonic, so if any SAT
> > II/III users out there could help me out, I thank you very much in
> advance!
> >
>
> Umm, Terry, what's wrong with measuring the numbers of the piano when you
> sit
> down to tune it?
> You may recall that when I was in a cranky mood I flamed someone who
wanted
> to
> be given FAC numbers for a small K&C. Now, in my experience 70s era K&Cs
> might
> give you an astronomical number for the F3. Like 28 cents or so? The SAT
II
> will compute a tuning with a default maximum F3 number of 20 cents.
However
> you
> approach such an instrument, the results will be imperfect.
> The Acrosonic is much more reasonably scaled, but you should measure that
> particular piano to generate a tuning; it won't have exactly the same FAC
> numbers as the Acrosonics I run into.
> Best wishes,
> Patrick Draine