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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rick: As Wim has said, you need to stop the lights.
However, on some pianos, spinets in particular, there is so much false beating
in the top octaves that it is practically impossible to get this to happen.
Plucking the string will sometimes give a clearer tone and reading. Sometimes
you just have to accept the inadequacies of the instrument, do the best you can,
and let it go at that. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Patrick C. Poulson<BR>Registered Piano
Technician<BR>Piano Technicians Guild</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=wimblees@aol.com href="mailto:wimblees@aol.com">Willem Blees</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Accu tuner readings</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><WBR>Rick<BR><BR>Yes, the lights have to stop in order to have
the piano in tune. I don't know how long you've been tuning, but when I first
started tuning with a SAT, I found that my upper octaves were not where I
usually tuned them. But after a while, I discovered I was actually tuning
those notes flat. The SAT made me hear how the notes are supposed to
be.<BR><BR>Give your SAT a chance to educate you. But more important,
make sure you're tuning the right note, set to the right octave. It's very
easy, sometime, to just look at the lights, and not the note and octave
setting. <BR><BR>
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