[pianotech] OT

[Ron Nossaman]

On 12/27/2012 1:14 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:
> Two questions.
>
>              If there are folks like me, facing trifocals in glasses,
> have any chosen to put the far range in the middle, and the mid-range in
> the top?  I’m having to get new glasses and I think they will recommend
> trifocals- me being 67 and all.

65, bifocals and looking over adequate to this point, but have cataract 
surgery coming up very soon, so that could change. Oh boy, another rules 
change...


>              Do any of you carry a “tuner”, which will play a wide
> variety of notes, which will not push the button while in a tool case,
> thus running down the battery while it lies in the case?

No, just a fork, with a backup in the truck - in case.

Sometimes puns are so easy they aren't even fun.


>I left my
> tuning fork somewhere, and have found that A-440 in itself does not
> really indicate if a pitch raise is necessary.  I’d like to have
> something with a slide switch instead of a push button.

The old Accu-Forks have a slider, but I don't see it as necessary. In a 
lot of cases, I can't tell if a piano needs a pitch raise or not by 
checking 440, or whatever. That section of the piano moves only slightly 
more than the bass, which hardly moves at all. Tune your A to the pitch 
source, and compare to the next octave up, and the double octave, and 
the need for a pitch raise will be strikingly obvious, one way or the 
other. If one note isn't enough, rough in a fourth and fifth to an 
octave from the A, and check again. If that's not enough... etc. Use 
what you have.
Ron N