Hi Hazen, You're giving me a guilt complex for encouraging you to buy the pocket RCT!! I like 5 for mid-size american grands, like S&S M or L. Smaller grands, and Asian grands, seem to sound better with less stretch. Of course, this is a matter of personal taste, and I am a former string player weaned on pure 5ths. What's the size and age of the Knabe? Do you remember what the calculated T, B, and D beat rates were? They should display in the tuning record header at the bottom of the CyberEar window. Jumpy spinner usually means false strings. I assume you tried moving the computer around to make sure the mike wasn't in a dead spot? One of my clients has an early 20th century Knabe, rather tired (the piano, not me), 5'6" or so. The last time I tuned it I was using RCT on a Windows laptop, with external mike. I had a lot of the same problems that you described, and moving the mike around didn't help. Try some other pianos, I think you'll find this Knabe was the exception, not the rule. Since Chicago, I've tuned 5 pianos with Pocket RCT. Here they are, with OTS selections: S&S M, OTS 5 Becker vertical, OTS 4 Baldwin spinet, OTS 2 Another Baldwin spinet, OTS 2 (octaves 0 and 6 mostly aural due to erratic spinner) Kawai 500 (5'8" grand), OTS 4 hope this helps, Mike Spalding, RPT ----- Original Message ----- From: <HazenBannister@cs.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: New toy (RCT) > Hi, > I tuned a Knabe grand today,and started out with my RCT on handheld > computer(First time user).I took the measurements,and choose setting 5 > ,instead of easy.Someone told me they usually use 4 or 5 for grands.I don't > know if I did something wrong,but I didn't like the way it sounded,so I got > my accutuner back out and tuned it.Also,the spinner seemed very > inconsistant,going one way and the other,giving false readings.What do most > of you guys,gals, set the spinner sensitivity to.Also maybe some RCT 101 > suggestions. > Thanks, > Hazen Bannister >
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