•Hello Everyone, My old Yamaha tuner has decided to retire ahead of me. I am wondering if anyone has a tuner for sale, so I can put in one or two more years. Please email me at nickelodeonco@gmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] Many thanks, Ron Schmuck

•Ron Schmuck asks for an instrument tuner. I can recommend the Korg CA-30. This is a fully chromatic tuner that can be adjusted from A-440 down to A-410 and up to A-480 in 1 Hz intervals. This is ideal for most musical instruments made back into the 19th Century. It only does equal temperament but t...

•Only 150 Temperaments? Hi All, Admittedly, I have to chuckle whenever I hear conversations about piano tuning, especially if someone says it 'must be' this way or 'that way' to be 'correct'. I think it's much more accurate to say that there are as many different temperaments as there are scale desi...

•We have had several piano tuners over the years tune the pianos in our music store. Some have used electronic tuning aids that ranged from a simple one-note electronic tuning fork to those fancy tuners with different scales programmed. I can honestly say that I have been surrounded by some of the b...

•The Piano Technicians Guild (PTG) has an "aural tuning requirement" in order to become a Registered Piano Technician (RPT). Yet in January 1997, at the PTG's "Great Chicago Tune-off", Jim Coleman tuned his piano using electronic tuning devices while Virgil Smith tuned his by ear. These were the bes...

•Don Teach is right: no electronic tuning device can touch the human ear. But most clients will not be able to hear what a skilled human tuner does hear. An electronic tuning aid, on the other hand, can improve the tuning qualities of an average human tuner. It can also speed up the tuning. And does...

•The Piano Technicians Guild did several tuning competitions in the 1990s and there was a pretty even split between the professional tuners who liked the aural tuning and electronically aided tunings. An electronic tuning device when used properly is an aid to listening, not a replacement. It has be...

•As an Registered Piano Technician (RPT) I was required to learn how to tune aurally in order to pass the tuning portion of the exams, but almost immediately after passing I switched to an ETD (Electronic Tuning Device). I have tuned thousands of pianos this way, including concerts for some of the b...

•[ David Dewey wrote in 120522 MMDigest: > On this model, opening the pedal door locks the keys (there's > no way to accompany the roll!) Mine doesn't have those control buttons you mention, sorry. However, one can accompany the roll! What you need to do is make the pedal door lever such that it can...

•Somebody please identify this for me. I inherited it in a box of miscellaneous player piano stuff. Thank you. Skip Downing piks.gninwod@gmail.com.geentroep ["delete ".geentroep" to reply] [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/17/01/30/170130_143201_0130171547.jpg [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachmen...

A friend of mine needs to connect a MIDI disk player to a MIDI player. The distance is about 200 feet. Needless to say, he is having problems. If I remember correctly, the MIDI spec talks about 50 feet max. For this installation, he would prefer to not use MIDIMAN MIDI to audio conversion and then u...

In reply to: > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 16:48:43 -0400 > From: WillWiz@aol.com > To: rolls@foxtail.com > > Subject: Connecting MIDI devices over long distances We stock the Midi Match extender ($159.00) that extends a set of both the send and receive Midi cables to over 4000' using standard Microphone...

At 11:12 PM 7/24/96 PDT, you wrote: > >Examples: > > 1. I'm watching the price of the Roland SC-88 Super Canvas; their > price is $849. Don't forget the Roland GM-64[something or other], which is a 64 channel dual MIDI rack-mounted unit. Sam Ash (in NYC) sells them for under $700. The piano sound is...

Maybe somebody's already done this, but I'd like to compile a list of working mechanical music items on *public* display in NY state (with the idea of taking some road trips to see them!). Amusement parks, shopping malls, shops, bars, taverns, restaurants, that kind of thing. Here's a dump of my com...

•The [Conn] strobe and the Korg devices are good references for a decent, if not good, tuning on a big old upright and a quality grand (from my experience). Tuning charts can be a poor reference on small and badly scaled pianos. Equal temperament tuning is the standard used by the vast majority of p...

•I agree with Bill Maguire that use of an electronic tuner can be quite satisfactory for the do-it-yourselfer. I was quite happy with my results using a Korg and, while a professional would no doubt do a better job, I'm not sure I could tell the difference (on an old upright). With tuning costing ar...

•To all: Just grounding the motor of a grand piano isn't the whole thing. I just checked the drawer switch of my Marshal and Wendell Ampico and found that the motor on/off wire is contained in a small metal J-box. This little box has a toggle switch that turns the motor on or off. The toggle switch ...

•Can not say it often enough: check out http://www.mcmaster.com for parts McMaster-Carr probably has what you need or want, even if you don't know it yet, with almost a 1/2 million items listed, 75% of which is in stock. They have a branch in Ohio. I live north of Detroit, and if I order around 11 p...

•Hi All, I am in total agreement with John Tuttle's and Don Teach's comments on electronic tuning aids for pianos. They are a dead waste of a shilling (a nickel over there); they do not take into account the need to "stretch" the tuning as you ascend the octaves or account for the compression of the...

•Hi, I would just like to reiterate that I totally agree with the comments made by John Tuttle and Don Teach about electronic tuning aids. Why my agreement with them should have stirred up such an abundance of "corrective" mail to me personally, I really don't know. Personally, I don't do piano tuni...