Hi Jim Can I please have your private email address. Thanks Jarred Finnigan jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Jim Coleman, Sr. Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2001 2:30 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Cc: caut@ptg.org Subject: RCT TlabPro and SAT III Hi to all: This week I did a video tape comparing the RCT, the TunelabPro and the SAT III. Many people have suggested a Tuneoff between the three instruments several times on the pianotech list. As in the Tuneoffs with Virgil Smith I always predicted that there is not a dimes worth of difference between the tunings. Here is a chance to see for yourself. This is Coleman vs Coleman vs Coleman which rules out ego tripping. These videos are available from Superior Instructional Tapes now. Ric Moody stopped in to visit me yesterday. He drove down from North Dakota to visit his son who lives in this area. I utilized Ric as Camera man while taping the last segment of the above video. The neatest thing he did was to tune out the unisons after I did the machine tuning. He did a great job. I don't think I will tune my piano again for awhile. In the taping of the use of the RCT, I used a number 6 Octave Tuning Style (OTS). This worked out beautifully for my Steinway L in the treble. In the Bass, I departed from the program and demonstrated a method for getting pure 6-3 type octaves using the #6 OTS. In the demo of the TLPro, I adjusted the Tuning curve to be similar to what I had done with the RCT and what I have determined from past experience works fairly well. In the SATIII portion I demonstrated the judiciout use of the Double Octave Beat (DOB) in achieving my personal preference for octave matching. I used many aural tests throughout so that the demo would not be so boring. 3rds, 10ths, 17ths, octave-5ths, double octave-5ths and M6ths, 3rd-10th-17ths were used often to show the smoothness of all of the tuning systems. Single, double and triple octaves were easy to hear, none perfect, but all well balanced to give a nice overall sound. Jim Coleman, Sr.
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