Hi Carl, I use a laptop with a 12.3 inch screen for RCT and I have zero problems with it size wise! At 05:20 PM 11/4/98 -0600, you wrote: >Carl Root wrote: > >>I expect my copy of RCT to arrive any day now. I plan to run it on my >>desktop next to my own piano to make sure I like it as much as I expect >>to. I will then have to decide what size laptop to buy. Dean is trying >>to talk me out of the new G3's which measure something like 12 X 12, but >>the large screen, full size keyboard, and other features sound >>attractive. > >You could probably become accustomed to tuning with a G3, especially if >you haven't used RCT at all before, but I have seen the G3's and although >they are wonderful, sleek computers, they _are_ huge. > >>I was thinking off modifying the Steinway triangular lid prop design by >>adding a piece of 1/2" X 1/8" X 12" brass or steel mounted on the >>underside of the triangle. An alternative would be a pair of 2" X 1" X >>1/2" blocks with a dovetail cut in one end that would slide in a >>dovetail track. The blocks act as clamps or wedges that would form a >>stable shelf. > >Placing a laptop on a grand is never a problem. One can place a laptop on >many vertical fallboards with no problem. I only rarely place a laptop on >the top of a vertical piano. I regularly place a laptop on a small >Accu-Tuner case sitting on the floor just in front of the bass end >caster. This has become perfectly natural for me and works just great. > >Kent Swafford > > >>I'd like to hear what other RCT users have done to solve this problem. >> >>Carl Root, RPT > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts" drose@dlcwest.com http://www.dlcwest.com/~drose/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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