This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hope you weren't using the tuning for the 64-note Tom Thumb! I have had the same thing happen to me a couple times. I never figured = out what the deal was. :-( Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Pianotoone@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 5:37 PM Subject: SAT Mystery Had finished installing new strings on 6' grand piano and had chipped = them=20 close to pitch.=20 Got out my trusty SAT Accutuner II and started at middle C, intending = to work=20 down and then up. Accutuner worked fine until I got to Bb (2). Then = it=20 wouldn't register the note. I tried moving the tuner, recalibrating = the FAC=20 numbers, trying a different grand piano stored tuning. Nothing = worked. =20 Still registered fine above Bb(2)=20 In experimenting I found that the lights stopped when I tuned Bb(2) = exactly=20 1/2 step flat (in other words to A2) and all the other noted below = Bb(2) the=20 same 1/2 step flat. I went ahead and tuned the bass by ear and then = started=20 up the piano using the same generic grand tuning I had stored in the=20 accutuner. When I got to Bb(5) exactly the same thing happened. I = finished=20 the treble using the old fashioned but reliable "ear" method.=20 When I finished this piano I went to a Baldwin Studio piano in the = same=20 church and the accutuner worked perfectly. Went back to the grand = again and=20 had the same problem.=20 Are you on line Dr Sanderson or Ric B.? Or anybody that can solve = this=20 mystery.=20 Thanks and Happy holidays to all=20 Dick Day=20 Marshall MI=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/72/9c/f5/47/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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