Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?

[Farrell]

Valid point about pitch recognition. On small pitch raises, say up to 25 or 30 cents, the VT works fine in autostepping. For a larger pitch raise, after tuning the third string of the note, I manually advance to the next note and strike the key with left hand while I move tuning lever to center string pin of next note. Easily by the time I am ready to adjust pin, overpull is displayed (just a second or so). For those big pitch raises, I wish you could use a foot pedal with the VT. But not too big a deal.

That's one advantage with the SAT III: the overpull is preset to whatever you last measured. That way you can pull up a note from 120 cents flat, the SAT III will autostep up to the correct note when you are 50 or 40 cents flat of target pitch. The VT cannot calculate the proper overpull from 120 cents flat - only from 100 cents flat max, when the arrow gets onto the wide-screen-mode display. But again, not too big a deal as I just measure the new note from the VT set on the last note and add the little bit of extra overpull in my head - gives me something to think about while I tune.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@attbi.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?


> 
> On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 08:14  AM, Farrell wrote:
> 
> > I Joe. I was also going to ask why you use the SAT for pitch raises 
> > when you have a Verituner.
> 
> Though I own a VT too I find the SAT II's user interface much more 
> direct and efficient when large pitch raises are involved. Yes you can 
> do it but there's too much tweaking and waiting for the machine to 
> recognize the pitch it's measuring (is that B7 +13 cents or C8 -87 
> cents??). Besides I'm quite fond of the spinning red LEDs.
> On the other hand the VT is superior when it comes to generating a 
> customized fine tuning.
> 
> Patrick Draine
>