accutuner as tuning fork

[pianolover 88]

>>Do you ask them to be able to count beats, as well? <<

Of course not, and I only use it when their piano's pitch is  at least 20C 
off. I certainly don't need or use it as a "sales tool" in order to get them 
to agree to a pitch raise. At least 90% of all my NEW, first-time tunings 
involve a PR,  among other things.

Terry Peterson





----Original Message Follows----
From: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <kevin.e.ramsey@cox.net>
Reply-To: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <kevin.e.ramsey@cox.net>,   
Pianotech<pianotech@ptg.org>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject: Re: accutuner as tuning fork
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:30:06 -0700

Do you ask them to be able to count beats, as well? If a piano is 25 cents 
flat, they can hear the difference, but if it's only 10 cents flat, when you 
play their note to the machine, likely as not they'll think that they here a 
funny kind of sound, and they won't know what they're hearing.

Kevin.
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: pianolover 88
   To: pianotech@ptg.org
   Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:06 PM
   Subject: accutuner as tuning fork


   It dawned on my that my Accutuner III has an RCA jack in the back, "OSC 
out"
   which allows you to hear A440 as well as EVERY pitch under the sun! So I
   bought a small "powered" speaker, plugged it in and "ta-dah"...I now have
   the most expensive "tuning fork" money can buy! I can hear ANY pitch, and
   vary the volume as well. For me this is basically a great tool to let my
   customers HEAR just how flat (or sharp) their pianos are from standard 
A440.


   Terry Peterson

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