Gang, please tell what if any chromatic tuner you use in your work. Do you ever have to in effect tune more or less a whole RO, like when tuning a piano?...
I use a Korg tuning standard. It is years old. It is tunable to other pitches, uses pitch sound, or meter dial. I use both as some things are easier to tune...
Hi Tuner should be able to do Equal temperament. Chromatic tuners for guitar, bass etc. are not suitable for organ tuning. Also accuracy is not good enough if...
Hi The piano tuner who we employ to tune the church piano only uses an electronic tuner to set the pitch to A=440 - after that, he sets the first octave by...
Hi Agreed - I can easily hear 1 beat in 10 seconds - and I suspect that trained tuners can better that - that's 0.01% around the C above middle c. The width...
Comparing tuning a piano to tuning a reed organ is dangerous. As we all (could/should) know by now, in piano tuning the octaves are "stretched' to keep the...
I've tuned scores of pipe organs and held keys on hundreds more, but you must understand I'm seeking a "magic bullet" today. Normally an impossibility, I find...
THE OLDEST HARMONIUM BUILDING COMPANY OF GERMANY. HARMONIUM, Kunstharmonium, Celesta, Harmonium-Celesta, piano, grandpiano, glockenspiel, all of those were...
... Hi, I use a small five-octave portable electronic keyboard. It is user-tunable in one cent increments. Any tuning is possible on this instrument, and all I...
AH -- there's the missing link I was hoping to find. It so happens I tuned to a 5-octave Yamaha Portatone keyboard, but it turned out to be under standard...
Officalially, according to law suits Yamaha is not building Celesta's but a copied and changed instruments. According to the last verdicts, they are not even...
The amazing and scary thing is how realistic electronic imitations are getting. My last Allen organ had a handbell stop that sounded exactly -- and I mean...
In september prof. dr. Christian Ahrens, emeritus professor of musical history, and acknowledged historian on reed organ and folk instruments, will publish a...
Hi Frans, Yes Yamaha is continuing to break the law. They think they re so big and powerful they can do anything. Our celesta is the size of a studio...
As some of you might know: The Mustel firm still exist. And lots of the patents have been registered as trademarks. Celesta is a protected name. So Yamaha can...
I restored a couple of Player Pianos and tuned one with help of a friend. Soooooo . . . . As I was told The proper way to tune a piano is to tune it by ear not...
Terrific -- thanks. I find my piano tuning didn't come out so bad. While your'e doing it, if you only rarely tune pianos, it seems impossible. Next time I plan...
... The reeds (lets say Estey reeds) as they emerged from the huge reed-making machinery, were capable of being tuned to the desired pitch, but were incapable...
My sister recently purchased a home built in the 1930's in Carbon Canyon, Chino Hills, CA. In the garage was an old Sterling Company Parlor Organ. We think...
You are invited to a new group "Mechanical Music Group for Free Discussion" This will be your group. There once was a group known as Mechanical Music Digest....
The only one I found is 125 euro It's a big Debain. Sampled: 1) Without expression 2) With couplers because reed organs have octave couplers ( b****hit ) 3)...
Hi Frans I agree - which is why I don't want to spend any money on it not that I can afford to at present). I just want something that will give an ...
Fine join the group and discuss it with the members. 27 new members in one day. there must be a need. What is a denomination??? Doug ... -- Doug L. Bullock ...
There is hardly any need to join. You told us that Mechanical Digest hold back information on the Player Piano Co. Auction. I had a look in my e-mail and found...
Greetings, My name is Steve and I am currently disassembling ESTEY EPRO (Electro Pnuematic Reed Organ) Serial # 111 circa 1940 (only about 450 made) for parts...
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