Jim Harvey writes about his SAT not reading certain notes; > Has this happened to anyone else? Lacking a better explanation, > I'm beggining to think the microphone has a dead spot at this > (approximate) frequency. Jim, It is refreshing to know that in this scientific, computer chip, age we live in that there is some originality in the hardware. My SAT doesn't like to read the G and G#s!!!! I also tuned these notes aurally, but then, when I am sure that the note is right, I go hunting for a harmonic that the machine does like, and then I zero it and punch it in. i.e., for one of my recording studio pianos, ( a Sanderson rescaled Chickering 9'), the G above mid C is tuned by the triple octave G tuned somewhere like 14 cents sharper than it oughta be by the numbers! Bizarre, but once you get it tuned, any partial will do for an index . regards\ Ed Foote
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