Verituner Review

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Joe, if that is your best I would hate to see your worst. <G>
The Verituner that you were trying may have been set hot.
By hot I mean set so that any thing other than right on would cause the
spinner to move right and left. This is what the string does naturally and
the Verituner can sense all of that.
There is a default setting that is very similar to the SAT.

Or you may have also been dealing with a piano with nonmated strings. This
also will cause the spinner to not come to a stop. To overcome this all I do
is play the note soft and repeated fast like one must do in the high treble
with the SAT and go for an average. Then check with the ear.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Verituner Review


> As a looooong time user of Accutuners, (previously Sight-O-Tuner,
> plain/modified), Peterson, Yamaha, Conn & a couple other weirdo's that
noone
> has heard of. I have had an opportunity to check out the VT, several
times.
> Sometimes by itself and others in comparison to the SATII. My biggest
> complaint, (one of many, in this regard), is that it's so damned busy
> calculating, whatever it's calculating, the the darned spinner is all over
> the place and NEVER really settles down enough to varify what the real
pitch
> is. Of course, I do not do "canned" tunings, but rather use ETDs to simply
> be a measuring device that tell me what the piano needs. I prefer to do my
> own calculating/comprimises, etc. I don't want no darned macheeen telling
me
> what it thinks the pianer needs, in regards to a tuning! Therefore, I'll
> stick with my SAT II. I'll not get a SATIII, as it do anything that the
> SATII is required to do, by me. All them "bells & whistles" are mostly
Horse
> Pucky, IMO! Besides, the buttons are too small for my big "meat-hooks"!
> Likewise, I've looked at the Reyburn and TuneLab. Both are just as
Adequate
> as the SATs. One major drawback for them: No way in hell I'm toting a
$2-3K
> piece of equipment around that, if dropped, is toast! Dern laptops won't
sit
> on top of all the uprights, etc., that I do. The palm pilot thingees is
good
> ideer, but again, too danged fragile fer the likes of me.
> Just my 76.5cents worth, (inflated from 1969 when the dollar was
"devalued",
> whatever the heck that means!)<G>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> Captain, Tool Police
> Squares Are I
>
>
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