Paul Sanderson <inventronics@aol.

com>

Fri, Dec 13, 12:28 PM (8 days ago)

to me

Hello David -

As an overview, to practice for the PTG exam, since you don't have three or more certified tuning
examiners in your living room, we will use an FAC tuning as the supertuning. The supertuning is the
tuning that a person taking the test will be compared to, and the further away the examinee's tuning is
compared to the supertuning, the lower the net score will be. The measured FAC tuning will end up
with a very high score when taking the exam, so if you can aurally replicate an FAC tuning, you will do
very well. The only place you would be outside the exam tolerances would be the high treble, the exam
is outlined to tune single octaves versus double octaves in the seventh octave.

To practice for the PTG exam, the quickest way is to tune your piano by measuring an FAC tuning and
then use that tuning to tune the piano. Once the piano is tuned decide which page of SUPERTUNING
you would like to store the tuning on (choice of supertuning 1,2,3 or 4). Go to the page -3 to get to the
SUPertuning page, by default supertuning 1 is select, if you wanted to store to supertuning 4, hold down
the GREEN SHIFT and then use the PAGE button to select supertuning 4.

A section of the memory resides below Page 0 of conventional piano memory,

If you look a little further it explains that the PTG exam pages are the equivalent of page -1, page -2

Page -1

EXAMINEE

Examinee page
Page -2

POI

Points page

Page -3

SUP1, SUP2, SUP3 or SUP4

Supertuning page

Page -4

DIFFERENC

Cents Difference page

Page -5

UnTune

Untuning page

Read as page minus one, page minus two...

The partials that the PTG exam uses for the exam is different than the FAC partials, so we cannot directly
use an FAC tuning on the supertuning page. So tune the piano, then go to the desired supertuning page
and measure/store the cents deviation for the notes from C1 up to B7. From the manual: Notes AO,
A#O, BO and C8 are not scored in the PTG exam. Once we have stored the supertuning to the page, then
to set up the piano as you would when taking the exam, go to page minus 5 and tune (really un-tune) the
piano while using page -5. This will tune the piano with one note sharp, the next note flat through out
the C1 to B7 tuning. The reason for this is so that each person taking the exam will have the same
starting point, and each note will be just outside the tolerance so you cannot just walk into the exam
room, not tune the piano and pass the exam. Once the piano is un tuned, then you can start as the
examinee, go for it and aurally tune the piano. I think you have thirty minutes to tune the temperament
and then ninety minutes to tune the piano.

From the manual:

Before the exam is given, the piano must be untuned by a standard amount as specified by the PTG
Examination Manual. This is taken care of by page UnTune, which uses the supertuning page SUP to
generate an untuned setting equal to the setting from page SUP plus or minus four times the tuning
tolerance for that particular note. Flat and sharp deviations alternate. For example, the tolerance for C3
is one cent so C3 is tuned four cents sharp with respect to the supertuning, C#3 is tuned four cents flat,
D# four cents sharp, etc. Where the tolerance is six cents, the notes are tuned alternately twenty-four
cents flat and sharp.

Once you have done your best to tune the piano, measure and store the tuning to the Page -1, the
examinee page, and to see how you would score on the exam look at Page -2 and write down the notes
that you would lose points.

The following are the temperaments that are factory stored in the Accu-Tuner:

To try out a temperament, the following temperaments are stored in the Accu-Tuner on temperament
pages 8 through 14. The temperaments are listed below:

Temperament 8

Kirnberger III

Temperament 9

Meantone ¼ Comma

Temperament 10

Meantone 1/6 Comma

Temperament 11

Prinz Temperament

Temperament 12

Vallotti Temperament

Temperament 13

Werckmeister Temperament

Temperament 14

Young’s Temperament
So to use an early music temperament, create or select a tuning from a page of memory, then select an
early music temperament by holding down the BLUE shift and pressing the PAGE up button (TMPT short
for temperament). If you wanted to use the Prinz Well temperament, select a page of memory or create
an FAC tuning, then select temperament #11 by holding down the BLUE SHIFT, use the page up button to
Temperament 11. Once you have an equal temperament tuning (an FAC tuning) you select the
temperament as an overlay and the overlay can be added to the entire equal temperament piano tuning.

Sincerely,

Paul Sanderson

Inventronics, Inc.

130 Middlesex Rd. #14

Tyngsboro, MA 01879

Tel 978-649-9040

-----Original Message-----

From: David Dowd <daytonapianotuning@gmail.com>

To: sales <sales@accu-tuner.com>

Sent: Fri, Dec 13, 2019 10:07 am

Subject: Accu_Tuner1V

I'd like to utilize the PTG examination program stored in my machines memory but can't seem to figure
out from the manual how to.

Question:

1. Please provide me the step by step procedure on making use of the PTG examination program stored
in my Accu_Tuner 1V so I can wood-shed (practice) for the PTG tuning exam.
on my Sohmer baby grand?

1. Second program I want to make use of is the Well Temperament what is the step by step procedure
on how to bring up the Well Temperament Temperament to tune a C3-C4 octave?