This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi David, I can't imagine anyone who claims to be able to crack the unison Vergil = Smith style wanting or needing to use an ETD. Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Ilvedson=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 8:41 AM Subject: Re: tuning environment Marshall, How visually impaired are you? If you can see the red spinner fairly = well, the Accutuner might be the way to go...but there are numbers = involved in setting it up. Their size is about like 8.4 8.7 9.3 David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Original message From: pianotune05@comcast.net To: "Pianotech List"=20 Received: 2/6/2006 5:11:20 AM Subject: Re: tuning environment I know I'm not going out and buying and ETD right away, but I was = wondering what size font the print is. ie. 10 12 etc. Since I use the = city bus system, the smaller ones woule be a better match for me ,but = depending on the print. I can see the red light on the spinner pretty = well. Are they pretty much the same in price, tune lab, verituner etc. = I know the Acutuner III is in the neighborhood of 1700$=20 Marshall -------------- Original message --------------=20 From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@luther.edu>=20 > At 12:36 PM 2/6/2006 +0100, you wrote:=20 > > >...ETD that I can get a close look at. I want to see how bug = the numbers=20 > >are whether I can read them or not. I'd like to get one just so I = can=20 > >raise pitch before tuning by ear.<=20 > >=20 > >Hi Marshall,=20 > >=20 > >Maybe someone there still uses the laptop version of RCT. I think = that as=20 > >the screen is pretty big, it wont be too difficult for you to see = the=20 > >spinner, and you can put it in different colours which may help. = It's=20 > >awesome for pitch raises.=20 >=20 >=20 > Guilty as charged...=20 >=20 > I have RCT on a new 14.5" screen Toshiba. (i.e. large print = edition... ;-}=20 > ) Note: that's larger tha! n my home TV screen. If I ever buy a = DVD, I'll=20 > watch it on my laptop. 8-}}}=20 >=20 > No internal mike, so I need to plug one in, but I still can set = the 'puter=20 > up to 8' away on a convenient table, chair, other piano or even = the floor=20 > and see quite well. For grands, I usually set it up on the short = sticked lid.=20 >=20 > I have different colo(u)rs for the spinner for fine tune and pitch = raise,=20 > and some available hues are _really_ easy to see. I've also cut = down the=20 > propellor blade to 30=B0 so that the "blush" is really = dramatic/easily seen.=20 >=20 > my 2=A2.=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Conrad Hoffsommer=20 >=20 > Chi si ferma =E8 perduto.=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________=20 > Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b3/98/53/85/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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