Hale Site-O-Tuner

[Jim]

Dear Michel:

I was triggered by the terms you used: "canned" or "compressed".  At
the Tuneoff in Chicago there was certainly no consensus as to a difference
between the two tunings - Mine being almost exclusively electronically
tuned and Virgil's being completely aurally tuned.  With your skill as an
aural tuner, I wouln't worry about your tunings sounding "canned". You won't
let that happen.  You will keep you ears turned on at all times, and
you will find after awhile that tuning is much easier than before.

I can't vouch for this particular instrument, however.  If you want
the best in stability, customizeability, and simplicity, the SAT is
the way to go.  If you want all the latest bells and whistles, the RCT is
a very good machine and program.  At the Tuneoff, I matched Virgil's style
of aural tuning very closely.  Even though my tunings received slightly
more votes, it was very difficult to tell any difference.  A lot of guesses
or abstentions were made in the voting.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Michel Lachance wrote:

> >I'm somewhat interested in this unit but I confess to not
> >know much about it. I have been an aural tuner for some 12
> >years now and am now comfortable with my skills. I'm
> >concerned that using one of these devices will produce the
> >"canned" or "compressed" tuning I always seem to be following
> >up out in the field. What I am looking for is a tool not a
> >crutch as soo many seem to use these devices for. Can you
> >help me understand just what this items capabilities are?
> >			Greg
> >Greg & Mary Ellen Newell
> >gnewell@en.com
> >dt945@cleveland.freenet.edu
> >gnewell@juno.com
>
> Greg,
>
> This issue about the usefullness of tuning devices versus aural tuning has
> been over-discussed already in this forum.  If you want a long answer and
> have access to World Wide Web, I would suggest you go to the searchable
> gopher (you can get it from the Piano Page) and type in anything like
> "Sight-O-Tuner", "Accu-Tuner", "Accutuner" or "SAT" and you will get enough
> to spend several nights reading the discussions about the subject.
>
> If you want a short answer, here is mine:  the Accu-Tuner is by far the
> best tuning devices available and the only one that could serve efficiently
> the aural tuning.  You can store your own tunings, or the ones computed by
> the A-T, or any aural revised computed tuning.  You can also pitch raise a
> piano in 15 minutes with an astonishing precision.
>
> The last model of Sight-O-Tuners that came out from Tuner's Supply just
> before the close-out had some programming features and could even compute a
> "concert tuning" from C3 to F6 if I recall.  The old Sight-O-Tuners are
> high precision machines but should be considered more like "measuring
> devices' than "tuning devices" in regards of the pianos.
>
> Regards
>
> Michel Lachance, RPT
>
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