Use of SAt on spinet

[Jim]

Dear Michel:

My good friend Dr. Kent (with whom I taught classes for many years) used
to say "you can't make a silk purse with a sow's ear."  The 2 page system
which you mentioned is one approach to maintaining at least some consist-
ency.

Jim Coleman, Sr. (AZ)

On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Michel Lachance wrote:

> I have been using the SAT (with FAC) for a couple of years now and I find it
> really does a great job on most of the piano I have met, although I have to
> touch up the tenor bridge section quite often.
>
> However, I did not succeed yet to get a real smooth tuning on spinets using
> the FAC.  I tried storing the the stretch measurements of both plain and
> wound wires on two separate pages and then switching pages at the break point
> (plain/wound) while tuning.  Either I was not getting a good progressive
> temperament or clean octaves or both.  I Jim Coleman teaches a way of
> changing the stretch numbers but I could never figure out how to do it.
>
> Has anyone had good success with the wild spinets using FAC.
>
> Michel Lachance, RPT
>