This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment "All you guys that use these machines if the batteries went while tuning = what would you do?????" All??? I think if you read the post, you could easily discern that the = gentleman completed the tuning by ear. It's bad enough when someone = jumps all over another for a trivial matter, or when all facts are not = known. It is another to do that for absolutely no reason. Remember what your mother taught you: If you don't have anything good to = say, then............. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Walter Gramza=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 4:43 PM Subject: Re: SAT Mystery One should be able to tune by ear prior to purchasing the sat even = Albert Sanderson states that. All you guys that use these machines if = the batteries went while tuning what would you do????? Or if the lights = went out you would be up a creek without a paddle!!!!At 05:37 PM 12/9/00 = -0500, you wrote:=20 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 = 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/ef/97/81/dc/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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