[pianotech] Netbooks and tuning software

[David Ilvedson]

Photos are always helpful...you have to get it out of the way.   Can you get glue in and wedge it.    

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jim Henson" <a1propianos at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 5/3/2010 3:19:07 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Netbooks and tuning software


>Action came out, won't go back in. Weber Grand. Front of bass end of pin
>block delaminating. Suggestions?

>On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:08 PM, William Truitt <surfdog at metrocast.net>wrote:

>>  Hello List:
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>> I want to find out if anyone out there is using a netbook with any of the
>> tuning programs.  I’m not concerned that the various tuning programs will
>> run on a netbook, I expect that they would  - with the caveat that it would
>> have to be an Windows XP netbook as opposed to the new Windows 7 stuff
>> (there are still Windows XP netbooks available online).
>>
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>> I want to use a netbook to run tuning software, but I am considering a
>> netbook for other reasons also, as opposed to a Smartphone or PDA.  One
>> other good reason for on the road is that I could have my database with
>> directions, notes, and perhaps even scheduling software right there, and I
>> can enter mileage into a spreadsheet.  There seem to be some advantages
>> here.
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>> Also, I use Excel spreadsheets (too many of them, it sometimes seems) as
>> part of my teardown process for rebuilding in the shop.  It has been my
>> practice to take extensive measurements from the piano, enter them onto an
>> empty paper printout sheet for my teardown spreadsheet, and then enter them
>> manually into the spreadsheet on the computer.  Since I am doing such things
>> as key weighting, recording speaking lengths, waste lengths, etc. etc. etc.
>> for string and soundboard scaling, this is a lot of measuring and a lot of
>> time.  This double entry process is prone to error also.  What I would like
>> to do is get a copy of Dragon Speaks Naturally, a headset microphone, and a
>> netbook.  This way, I could speak and enter the data into the appropriate
>> spreadsheet cell and you’re there.  (Not my idea, credit goes to Jude
>> Reveley).
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>> These are the reasons I am considering a Netbook.  The question I have
>> regarding tuning software is if some of you still find it a bit too big and
>> still unwieldly.
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>> Thanks for your comments.
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>>
>> Will Truitt
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