Jeff and the list: Jeff beat me to an article praising the SAT. Having been a 20 year aural tuner, I too was reluctant to use the machine. I have used this machine for 3 months now, including the just concluded Christmas rush, and there is one thing that really made the SAT a worthwhile investment. I dodn't feel stressed out after a day of tuning. It used to be that after tuning 5 - 7 pianos in a day, I would come home mentally exhausted. The stress of laying in the temperament, checking and double checking octaves up and down the piano, took its toll on the concentration level. But now, it seems like I could tune forever and a day. I can actually concentrate on pure unisions, and fix those little octave problems in the high treble, without having a feeling of "no body's going to hear the out of tune unisons on B7". I have become a true convert. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I started out with the old SOT, and weaned myself after a year, thinking customers would not accept a "machine" tuning. But now that I am using the SAT, I actually brag how my "$1200 toy" helps me be a better tuner. Willem Blees, RPT St. Louis.
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