ETD Question

[Kent Swafford]

on 6/9/00 7:27 AM, Wimblees@AOL.COM at Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:

> I am not trying to be a smart allec (sp)
> with this, and Richard does ask a legitimate question, but my point here is
> that I don't know if my machine has problems like this, because I don't rely
> on it that much to get me in trouble.
> 
> When ETD's first came on the market, one fear was that the industry would
> attract "tone deaf" tuners. Now that ETD's are accepted, it appears that
> legitimate tuners are becoming "tone deaf."
> 
> For all you ETD tuners, at least once a week, tune a piano without it. Or at
> best, do like I do. Tune all the middle strings, and then turn the thing off,
> and tune the rest of the piano by ear.
> 
> Willem

Come on, Wim.

For years I and many others have been advocating combining the techniques of
aural and visual tuning. The regular use of a VTD does not endanger ones
aural tuning ability; indeed, it can improve one's aural tuning ability.

Richard was pointing out a weakness in his VTD, so he obviously was
listening to the tuning, as we fully expect. Because tuners listen the way
Richard does, RCT (and I hope the other VTD's too) have had to get better
and better over time. Aural/Visual tuning is a synergistic loop.

Kent