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<DIV>"All you guys that use these machines if the batteries went while =
tuning
what would you do?????"</DIV>
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<DIV>All??? I think if you read the post, you could easily discern =
that the
gentleman completed the tuning by ear. It's bad enough when someone =
jumps all
over another for a trivial matter, or when all facts are not known. It =
is
another to do that for absolutely no reason.</DIV>
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<DIV>Remember what your mother taught you: If you don't have anything =
good to
say, then.............</DIV>
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<DIV>Terry Farrell<BR>Piano Tuning & Service<BR>Tampa, Florida<BR><A =
href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</A></DI=
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:gramza@net.bluemoon.net" =
title=gramza@net.bluemoon.net>Walter
Gramza</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"
title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 10, 2000 =
4:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: SAT Mystery</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>One should be able to tune by ear prior to purchasing =
the sat
even Albert Sanderson states that. All you guys that use these =
machines
if the batteries went while tuning what would you do????? Or if the =
lights
went out you would be up a creek without a paddle!!!!At 05:37 PM =
12/9/00
-0500, you wrote: <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">Had finished installing new strings on =
6' grand
piano and had chipped them <BR>close to pitch. <BR><BR>Got out my =
trusty SAT
Accutuner II and started at middle C, intending to work <BR>down and =
then
up. Accutuner worked fine until I got to Bb (2). Then it =
<BR>wouldn't register the note. I tried moving the tuner,
recalibrating the FAC <BR>numbers, trying a different grand piano =
stored
tuning. Nothing worked. <BR>Still registered fine above =
Bb(2)
<BR><BR>In experimenting I found that the lights stopped when I =
tuned Bb(2)
exactly <BR>1/2 step flat (in other words to A2) and all the other =
noted
below Bb(2) the <BR>same 1/2 step flat. I went ahead and tuned =
the
bass by ear and then started <BR>up the piano using the same generic =
grand
tuning I had stored in the <BR>accutuner. When I got to Bb(5) =
exactly
the same thing happened. I finished <BR>the treble using the =
old
fashioned but reliable "ear" method. <BR><BR><BR>When I finished =
this piano
I went to a Baldwin Studio piano in the same <BR>church and the =
accutuner
worked perfectly. Went back to the grand again and <BR>had the =
same
problem. <BR><BR>Are you on line Dr Sanderson or Ric B.? Or =
anybody
that can solve this <BR>mystery. <BR><BR>Thanks and Happy holidays =
to all
<BR><BR>Dick Day <BR>Marshall MI</FONT><FONT size=3>
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