Terry, A few people have stated what to do about not getting a clear picture of the F reading. Try plucking the string. It really works! Clark Sprague Detroit-Windsor Chapter On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:33:18 -0500 "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Page 16 of the SAT III manual: '"Good' FAC Numbers" > > "You can tell a lot about a piano and its scale design from the FAC > stretch > numbers. The three numbers should be reasonably close to each other > and lie > in a reasonably straight line. For example, FAC numbers such as 10, > 8, 6, or > 5, 6, 7, or 8, 8, 8 represent beautifully scaled > pianos..........Some > spinets have measured FAC numbers of 25, 6, 8. It is essentially > impossible > to get smoothly progressing beat rates across such diverse levels > of > inharmonicity." > > It says the same thing somewhere in the SAT I and II manuals. > Sanderson has > the manual online @ http://www.concentric.net/~Fast440/index.html > > Terry Farrell > Piano Tuning & Service > Tampa, Florida > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dick Powell" <dbpowell1@juno.com> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:51 PM > Subject: Re: SAT Stock Tunings > > > > Terry, what are good value numbers for FAC. > > Thanks, Dick Powell > > ________________________________________________________________ > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > >
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