Tuning Test

[Jon Page]

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At 07:01 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Group,
>
>      I wonder if we will ever see in our time that the RPT examine will be
>done with an ETD alone.  Someone stated that the EDT device is comparable to
>the computer revolution.  I think that this is true.  Yes, I can add
>24983987349873982987349873 + 20394803984029809384 divided by
>2098098209830498309 and find the square root of this number in about 14 days
>if I do it by had but a computer can find it in about .03 seconds.  Sometimes
>it is very hard to let go of the old way but the way computers develop they
>will in time, if not already, be able to set a temperament better and faster
>than our ears ever could.  It is just a matter of time.
>
>     Can you imagine this list a few hundred years from now.  All of the ETD
>tuners will be the old fogies and lord know what they will be tuning with.
>Probably a laser tuning hammer that works by mind direction only.
>
>flame suit in place and standing near a fire hydrant.
>
>Leo Silverman

When I started about 30 years ago, electronic tuners were the black sheep 
of the piano technician community.
Now ETD's are well accepted and almost requisite by some.

What_is_this world coming to...

Cheer up,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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