[CAUT] Pitch References

[Chris Solliday]

and Elwood it is more likely that your tuning fork will change than your
Accu-Fork.
Chris Solliday
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elwood Doss" <edoss at utm.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pitch References


> I tune aurally and use the Sanderson Accu-fork with excellent results.
> It beats having to have 3 hands to set the starting pitch using a metal
> tuning fork.  It has an LED low battery light that I really like.  I
> will check it against the tuning fork on occasion.  It's always been
> right on.  Pricey, but worth it.
> Joy!
> Elwood
>
> Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT
> Piano Technician/Technical Director
> Department of Music
> 145 Fine Arts Building
> The University of Tennessee at Martin
> Martin, TN  38238
> 731/881-1852
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
> william ballard
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:50 AM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pitch References
>
> On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Chris Solliday wrote:
> > Bill, a quick visit to www.accu-tuner.com should prove profitable
> > to you.
> > Why are you fooling around with guitar tuners anyway? They are not
> > suitable
> > for piano tuning except for hack work. Tune Lab Pro or Cyber Tuner or
> > VeriTuner are contenders but not Kurg.
>
> Thanks for the idea, Chris. I'm not the one "fooling around with a
> guitar tuner". I kept any details about the situation out of the
> query, so as not to prejudice any replies. Just leave it that I'm
> looking for people who have had to defend their pitch from a
> professional ETD against that from a guitar tuner.
>
> (The one lapse from this neutrality  was ",,, how well would would a
> Korg hold to those specs after several years of kicking around in an
> instrument case". In the interest of full disclosure.)
>
> Just for the record, I use a steel A fork, which gets backed up by a
> copy of RCT v3 which I bought nine years ago when I thought I might
> migrate from aural to ETD. Didn't happen, but the ole mac PB2400
> still boots right up and RCT functions jes' like back in the day.
> When I checked my fork last week, RCT reported 439.46Hz.
>
> I've written to Dean to see if there's any reason to doubt  RCT's
> pitch reference when the app (and the machine it lives on) only get
> used once every few years. (I betting no reason to doubt.).
>
> BTW, I still owe you a sasprailla.
>
> mr bill
> wbps at vermontel.net
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