I should add that you need to remeasure every octave or so or when you cross from wound to plain wire or when it seems that the degree of flatness or sharpness is changing which you can sort of tell by the speed with which the lights are rotating from note to note. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Love Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 8:15 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] pitch raise On the III it’s very easy, just hold the measure button until the lights stop and then roll over the shift button (that means after the lights stop depress the shift button while holding the measure button down then release the measure button and then release the shift button), you’ll get an immediate offset that works for the bass and tenor. Use the shift 2 button for the treble. Very simple and pretty accurate. I don’t know if they changed the format for the IV but I would be surprised. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of rob at mccallpiano.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:17 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] pitch raise You're right, David. I do need to know how to measure and set the overpull. That's on my short list of "learning" activities. :-) That night, I didn't have that knowledge yet, and I was time pressured (now I know what concert tuners must feel like!), so I improvised using all the tidbits I'd gleaned from this list and my studies. The process, although rough around the edges, worked very well for my developing skills and the situation with which I was confronted. Always learning everyday, Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC Murrieta, CA rob at mccallpiano.com www.mccallpiano.com <http://www.mccallpiano.com/> 951-698-1875 On Dec 12, 2009, at 19:28 , David Love wrote: Rob: I'd still learn to measure and set the overpull. It's not hard to learn. You only need to remeasure every octave or so and when you're done that way you won't be even 5 cents off. Your way might work but it might not, you may not overpull enough or too much and then you'll might still off too far to get a reasonably stable tuning. The Cybertuner has a better overpull function because it measures continuously for you the trailing 5 notes as you go and calculates the average to figure out the overpull so you don't really need to do any manual measuring. Better chance for an acceptable one pass tuning with that function on. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com <http://www.davidlovepianos.com/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091213/d1ffbeee/attachment-0001.htm>
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