Eating pasta with chopsticks

Hi there!

Something wrong with yahoo and I cannot enter a tittle but sellect on of the available tittles haha!

So this is about TUNING MACHINES

I am at the moment checking the tuning of 96 bells G4 to G5(-1/16th of an 12ET tone) for the 3rd of March concert (more details check www.tonysalinas.com/ )

The Petterson machine was a disaster for multiple tuning checks of bells as I am filing since I need to put my hands constantly on the tuning machine and that does not allow me to file the bells, plus to tell you the truth ... there is nothing more precise like the old strobotuner, not this digintal version which is a failure if you have another partial ringing strongly....so the later strobotuner it is like eating pasta with chopsticks...something very often practiced here in Japan! haha!

Instead I used a Korg with a needle meter which is what they use at the London Met univ. for tuning their woodwind instruments. It is interactive because I can hit the bells with the back of the file while I am filing (tuning).

Well that is for your information. Now I would like to know if anybody in this list knows about a tuning machine that I could buy for the same purpose, but that also has some kind of memory (maybe it can take readings to the computer) and it has a bit more precission than a needle but still as interactive as the needle tuners.

Thanks

Tony Salinas

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Jose Antonio Martin Salinas
<jamsalinas@...> wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Something wrong with yahoo and I cannot enter a tittle but sellect
on of the available tittles haha!
>
> So this is about TUNING MACHINES
>
> I am at the moment checking the tuning of 96 bells G4 to G5(-1/16th
of an 12ET tone) for the 3rd of March concert (more details check
www.tonysalinas.com/ )
>
>

I'm afraid I can't be any help with the technical aspects... but I
have some question about the bells.

Are the overtones anywhere near harmonic? Can they be individually
adjusted by shaping the bell?

... Does the particular overtone structure of the bells have something
to do with the chosen tuning?

~~~T~~~