Photos are always helpful...you have to get it out of the way. Can you get glue in and wedge it. David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Jim Henson" <a1propianos at gmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 5/3/2010 3:19:07 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Netbooks and tuning software >Action came out, won't go back in. Weber Grand. Front of bass end of pin >block delaminating. Suggestions? >On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:08 PM, William Truitt <surfdog at metrocast.net>wrote: >> Hello List: >> >> >> >> I want to find out if anyone out there is using a netbook with any of the >> tuning programs. Im not concerned that the various tuning programs will >> run on a netbook, I expect that they would - with the caveat that it would >> have to be an Windows XP netbook as opposed to the new Windows 7 stuff >> (there are still Windows XP netbooks available online). >> >> >> >> I want to use a netbook to run tuning software, but I am considering a >> netbook for other reasons also, as opposed to a Smartphone or PDA. One >> other good reason for on the road is that I could have my database with >> directions, notes, and perhaps even scheduling software right there, and I >> can enter mileage into a spreadsheet. There seem to be some advantages >> here. >> >> >> >> Also, I use Excel spreadsheets (too many of them, it sometimes seems) as >> part of my teardown process for rebuilding in the shop. It has been my >> practice to take extensive measurements from the piano, enter them onto an >> empty paper printout sheet for my teardown spreadsheet, and then enter them >> manually into the spreadsheet on the computer. Since I am doing such things >> as key weighting, recording speaking lengths, waste lengths, etc. etc. etc. >> for string and soundboard scaling, this is a lot of measuring and a lot of >> time. This double entry process is prone to error also. What I would like >> to do is get a copy of Dragon Speaks Naturally, a headset microphone, and a >> netbook. This way, I could speak and enter the data into the appropriate >> spreadsheet cell and youre there. (Not my idea, credit goes to Jude >> Reveley). >> >> >> >> These are the reasons I am considering a Netbook. The question I have >> regarding tuning software is if some of you still find it a bit too big and >> still unwieldly. >> >> >> >> Thanks for your comments. >> >> >> >> Will Truitt >>
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