BTW, I think you do need a SATIII or IV for this as the earlier versions don't have the DOB function. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Love Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:11 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] [Pianotek] the big discussion One procedure if you want to do more of a hybrid tuning is to simply take the measurement at A4 and accept the default settings at F and C which are 8 and 6 respectively. Then from there you tune A4, A3, A2 and listen to the A4 - A2 double octave. If the double octave is where you want it you go ahead and tune down from A4. It it's too wide or too narrow then you adjust with the Double Octave Beat function to make it wider or narrower as you see fit. Similarly going up. Tune A4, A5, A6 and check the double octave A4 -A6. Adjust with the DOB as necessary. Since any changes that are made by the DOB function leave the pitch reference note A4 in place you don't have to worry about changes there. You can do this at any other point in the tuning to expand this check outward from A3 - A1, or from A5 - A7. This avoids the problems that often occur when the F reading on a poorly scaled piano gives you something in the 20s and will result in the bass being overstretched. Similarly in the treble with the C measurement being too low or high. It takes some getting used to what constitutes a reading that is going to create problems but it is a nice way to incorporate an aural scaling of the tuning along with the precision of the ETD divisions. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Gary Doudna Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:39 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] [Pianotek] the big discussion David... Since I use an SAT, in addition to checking aurally, I was interested in what you said about only checking A-4 instead of FAC. Could you elaborate on what you meant? Thanks, Gary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110131/4d9073b7/attachment.htm>
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