<HTML>In a message dated 3/16/02 6:04:59 AM !!!First Boot!!!, rrg@unlv.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I already have a "hand held piano tuning device". No matter what kind of fancy name they give this thing it will still require a human to place it over the tuning pins one at a time.  Then assuming that it's purposes is to set the temperament for you there are already plenty of ETDs available for that.  This only leaves automatically turning the pin for you which makes about as much sense as those stupid handicap doors we have at the university that STILL require that you pull on them before they open themselves, (duh).  I can see the stripped and rounded pin heads now.  No small-time home piano owner who had to finance the purchase of their Korean console is going to buy this thing and professionals know better.  I think it is going to be a pretty hard sell.  This of course discounts the fact that pianos require a lot more than tuning.  If they want to impress me how about inventing a machine that will repin flanges, shape hammers, and rebush a set of key bushings in thirty minutes!! Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV </BLOCKQUOTE> Darn you, Rob. Now Bill won't head for the hills. I was so looking forward to that. Wim PS How about training a monkey to do those tedious tasks? On second thought, that will probably cost you more in bananas that doing it your self. Oh well.</HTML>