<HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER= -LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none">Marshall, How visu= ally impaired are you?   If you can see the red spinner fairl= y well, the Accutuner might be the way to go...but there are numbers in= volved in setting it up.  Their size is about like   8.4   8.7  </FONT= >9.3 David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, Cali= fornia <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5p= x; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message From: pianotune05@comcast.net To: "Pianotech Lis= t" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> Received: 2/6/2006 5:11:20 AM Subject: Re:= tuning environment <DIV align=left>I know I'= m not going out and buying and ETD right away, but I was wondering what= size font the print is. ie. 10 12 etc.  Since I use the city bus = system, the smaller ones woule be a better match for me ,but depending = on the print.  I can see the red light on the spinner pretty well.= Are they pretty much the same in price, tune lab, verituner etc. = I know the Acutuner III is in the neighborhood of 1700$ </DIV> <DIV>Marshall</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: = #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- F= rom: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@luther.edu> > At 12:3= 6 PM 2/6/2006 +0100, you wrote: > > >...ETD that I can get= a close look at. I want to see how bug the numbers > >are wh= ether I can read them or not. I'd like to get one just so I can &gt= ; >raise pitch before tuning by ear.< > > > >= Hi Marshall, > > > >Maybe someone there still uses = the laptop version of RCT. I think that as > >the screen is p= retty big, it wont be too difficult for you to see the > >spi= nner, and you can put it in different colours which may help. It's = > >awesome for pitch raises. > > > Guilty as= charged... > > I have RCT on a new 14.5" screen Toshiba.= (i.e. large print edition... ;-} > ) Note: that's larger tha! n= my home TV screen. If I ever buy a DVD, I'll > watch it on my l= aptop. 8-}}} > > No internal mike, so I need to plug one = in, but I still can set the 'puter > up to 8' away on a convenie= nt table, chair, other piano or even the floor > and see quite w= ell. For grands, I usually set it up on the short sticked lid. >= > I have different colo(u)rs for the spinner for fine tune and = pitch raise, > and some available hues are _really_ easy to see.= I've also cut down the > propellor blade to 30° so that the "= blush" is really dramatic/easily seen. > > my 2¢. &= gt; > > > > Conrad Hoffsommer > = > Chi si ferma è perduto. > > ______________________= _________________________ > Pianotech list info: http://www.ptg.= org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>