>...I remember your saying about a year ago that you hadn't really been >comfortable with piano tuning till you started using an ETD. I think >what you say above is ample reason for it... A brief bio, Susan: Actually, what I probably said was, I wouldn't be tuning pianos at all if it weren't for my dad and the Sight-O-Tuner (SOT). Back in 1976, give or take a year, I watched him tune a piano. Then, when he introduced me to the principles of tuning and after he had me tune a piano, I seem to recall saying to him that it was too much work, and I wasn't interested. He then gave me a SOT that had been given to him, but put on a shelf because he was already set a an aural tuner. I said okay, I'd give it a try, and the rest is history. Now it's currently the Sanderson Accu-Tuner (SAT) II, eventually to become the SAT III or Reyburn CyberTuner (RCT) or both. Over the years I've taken all the reasons given why one should do this and why one should do that, put those reasons in a bag, shook it real well, and came up with the way I do it today. In fact, I reopened that bag this Saturday, and spent an intensive deal of time reviewing the past twenty years of *all* those reasons, plus the ones most recently discussed on Pianotech under the main heading of Historical Temperaments. Here's what came out, I do what I do for excellent reasons, which, quite frankly, I was quite happy to rediscover. So, I don't intend to mess with a good thing, except to amplify on that good thing as mentioned above. My destiny is already laid. >...You would probably be quite quick at it all, since it is much easier >than what you've been doing... I can't imagine anything being easier than what I'm doing, unless it's not to have to move a tuning lever at all, have the piano tune-up, and *still* collect payment. :-)) I do appreciate you supportive comments! Keith McGavern kam544@ionet.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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