SAT Mystery

[Farrell]

Good point. Often when a piano is 100 or more cents flat, or when the note
pitches are very irregular (one note 300 cents flat, the next 100 cents
flat, etc.) in the low bass, I will start around G1 (or whereever I am sure
I have the right pitch) and work down with the SAT, being sure I have the
right partial by ear. I find it very easy to get confused down there when
things start out way out of kilter.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin E. Ramsey RPT" <ramsey@extremezone.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: SAT Mystery


> If you're doing a lot of chipping, I would suggest getting the external
> speaker for the SAT, that will give you an audio tone which you can use
> (with offsets and all) with a stored tuning. Also, when chipping, or
tuning
> a really really out of tune piano, always use your ears too, even if it's
> only playing octaves down into the low bass. Sometimes you can stop the
> lights, and have an  octave that is really a ninth, because the machine
> picks up the seventh partial instead of the sixth. ( I think I said that
> right).
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:58 PM
> Subject: Re: SAT Mystery
>
>
> > Dick Day wrote;
> > <<" ........................Or anybody that can solve this
> > mystery.">>
> >
> > Dick;
> >  I have tried doing the same thing that you describe...it don't work.
:-)
> > Stored tunings in the SAT have something stored for that tuning but it
is
> the
> > partial rather than the fundemental..as I understand it. Thus the SAT
may
> > tell you something that you don't understand but it demands that what
you
> > tell it be understandable. In other words a 'stored tuning' can't be
used
> for
> > chipping purposes or even for vast movements of the strings such as in
the
> > first tuning on a new set of strings. In order for the SAT to give you
> > accurate readings that you can understand the tuning has to be closer
than
> > you will find in a typical first tuning.
> >  The way to use the SAT to get in the ballpark on the 'first' tuning is
> just
> > use the generic semi chromatic tuning that pops up after you push the
> "tune"
> > button right after turning th unit on. Tune through one time with that
and
> > then the 'stored tunings' will work just fine. I usually tune thingees
> twice
> > on the 'generic' tuning before calculating FAC numbers for that
particular
> > instrument. After FAC numbers are figured I store that tuning in a page
I
> use
> > for rebuilding and use it from then on. Why does this seem to work ? I
> don't
> > know...... but it seems like Dr. Coleman explained that the 'generic'
> tuning
> > button uses the fundemental only ?
> > Jim Bryant (FL)
> >
>
>