Brian Henselman wrote: >Ummm, > >What ever happened to just tuning with a fork and our ears? Nothing. I hear (get it?) that aural tuning still works just fine. :) When tuning conditions are favorable, I sometimes tune aurally, but... >If you want a precision concert tuning, then what's wrong with aural tuning? Nothing. But I prefer to bring a very large (figurative) bag of tricks to my tunings. There are many different kinds of adversity that tuners must deal with -- noisy environments, bad piano scaling, time constraints, pitch corrections and pitch levelings, requests for non-standard pitches, tuning two or more pianos together or to other instruments, mismatched bass strings, wild strings -- the list is endless. Combined aural/visual tuning techniques can be synergistic and more than the sum of the parts. My attitude is that armed with my aural tuning skills and RCT, the tuning business can hit me and my practiced aural/visual skills with any tuning problem and I'll be able to deal with it as well as it can be dealt with. Justified or not, I have confidence when armed with a visual tuning device that I wouldn't have otherwise. Kent Swafford
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