Accu tuner readings

[Farrell]

Rarely (if ever) will you see them stop. Most often when you have the pitch 
right at target, the lights will rotate one way (I think usually clockwise 
initially) and then the other. And it's not the machine that's doing weird 
things - the pitch of the string actually changes a little bit over the 
course of attack and decay. The trick is to be consistent. Randy Potter 
suggested to target the pitch about one second after the hammer strikes the 
string. Always seemed to me to be a reasonable approach.

Terry Farrell (former SAT user)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Osborne" <rve at bvunet.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:45 PM
Subject: Accu tuner readings


> Hello list,
>
> I purchased my accu tuner about 8 months ago.  When I first used it,  I 
> thought I might actually need to send it back.  I was tuning a  kimball 
> and the diodes were going everywhere except where they needed  to go. 
> When I finally closed the lid, I had a fair tuning.  However,  I thought 
> that if this was as good as I was going to get with this  tuner, I may as 
> well send it back.
> The next day, I tuned my piano, a Baldwin Acrosonic.  I couldn't  believe 
> the difference. When I finished, I had what I thought was a  pretty good 
> tuning.  I need to know one thing though.
> Slowing down the lights is easy; however, I need to know if the lights 
> should always come to a dead stop.  I am still trying to work out this 
> issue, especially with spinet pianos.  Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Osborne
> rve at bvunet.net
> www.rickosborne.net
>