[pianotech] high and outside

[tnrwim at aol.com]

That doesn't compute Wim. If the guy had the ETD set a note off, then it would have been tuned 100 cents sharp or flat - not at all the case that Ron observed.


Terry Farrell


The ETD was not off by one note. The ETD was probably off by four or five notes, or even on the wrong octave. This happens to me occasionally when, in the process of tuning, I run some progressive 3rds, 4ths, and 5ths, just to see how the tuning is going. The SAT then hears some of those notes, and automatically goes to one of those lower notes. Then when I go back to the note I was tuning, I forget to look to see which note the SAT is on. This is what I suspect happened with the guy Ron talked about. Except he didn't look, much less listen.

Wim


-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sun, Oct 28, 2012 4:11 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] high and outside


That doesn't compute Wim. If the guy had the ETD set a note off, then it would have been tuned 100 cents sharp or flat - not at all the case that Ron observed.


Terry Farrell


On Oct 28, 2012, at 2:19 AM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:


The other, and more probably reason, Duaine, is that the tuner using an ETD forgot to switch to the next note, and tuned the whole bass section with the note set one or two higher. But because the tuner couldn't, or didn't, check his/her tuning aurally, didn't know the piano was being tuned wrong. 
 
Wim

 
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