[pianotech] OT

[Avery Todd]

Ron,

I had cataract surgery several months ago and kicked myself for not having
it sooner!! I couldn't believe the difference it made. I'd forgotten what
good vision is. At night, many times I couldn't even see the lines on the
roads if they were faded very much, even with my glasses. So I basically
quit driving at night. Now I can see them even without my (different) pair
of glasses. Which I rarely even use anymore. Mainly for very small print on
a webpage on my iPhone sometimes. I hope it works as well for you as it did
for me.

Avery Todd
Houston, TX

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> On 12/27/2012 1:14 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:
>
>> Two questions.
>>
>>              If there are folks like me, facing trifocals in glasses,
>> have any chosen to put the far range in the middle, and the mid-range in
>> the top?  I’m having to get new glasses and I think they will recommend
>> trifocals- me being 67 and all.
>>
>
> 65, bifocals and looking over adequate to this point, but have cataract
> surgery coming up very soon, so that could change. Oh boy, another rules
> change...
>
>
>
>               Do any of you carry a “tuner”, which will play a wide
>> variety of notes, which will not push the button while in a tool case,
>> thus running down the battery while it lies in the case?
>>
>
> No, just a fork, with a backup in the truck - in case.
>
> Sometimes puns are so easy they aren't even fun.
>
>
>
>  I left my
>> tuning fork somewhere, and have found that A-440 in itself does not
>> really indicate if a pitch raise is necessary.  I’d like to have
>> something with a slide switch instead of a push button.
>>
>
> The old Accu-Forks have a slider, but I don't see it as necessary. In a
> lot of cases, I can't tell if a piano needs a pitch raise or not by
> checking 440, or whatever. That section of the piano moves only slightly
> more than the bass, which hardly moves at all. Tune your A to the pitch
> source, and compare to the next octave up, and the double octave, and the
> need for a pitch raise will be strikingly obvious, one way or the other. If
> one note isn't enough, rough in a fourth and fifth to an octave from the A,
> and check again. If that's not enough... etc. Use what you have.
> Ron N
>
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