Hello, Ed. Point taken. Two-piano concerts with a tight schedule, and massive pitch raising, are the two tasks where I have thought that an SAT might be nice to have. Luckily, in my part of the world, I tend to look after the same pianos and can keep them close. I decided early on that Newport would be 440 land, and luckily visiting orchestras, so far, have had no trouble with that. If tuning for a two-piano concert, I try to have plenty of time, even if it means pre-tuning the night before, so they're close enough. (Luckily I only needed to do that once.) Then I move them so I can reach both keyboards, tune the best one, then slave the other to it, checking note by note, with cross checks. F to A on 1st, F of 1st to A of second, vice versa, etc. It doesn't take as long as it sounds like it would. Living in a backwater has its benefits. Cordlessness, for instance. Not that I don't admire people who can get through a slug of work well, in a hurry. Susan At 10:22 PM 08/01/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Susan writes: ><< <<"Or ... you can use >the internally programmable grey device. No switch, batteries rechargeable >with hamburgers, no upgrades, no tangled cords, no blinkety lights, .....">> > > Ah, yes, ears are wonderful things, but this morning, I had two concert >grands to tune for a duo piano rehearsal. One was freshly restrung and >anywhere from 3 to 10 cents flat. The other hadn't been tuned for the last >two months and was 14 cents sharp,(plus another temperament). I had two >hours to do the whole thing. > I don't think I would have been able to get it done, aurally. The >construction outside the building was loud, the pitch corrections were >drastic. There was time for one pass each on these pianos, the SAT III left >me with two tunings that were within 2 cents of each other at their worst, ( >right above the bass break and easily corrected in a few minutes), and right >together in most places. > They are just tools. >Regards, >Ed Foote RPT >
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