Rave on, Ron. Well said! I feel better about my aural tuning, although the temptation for a new toy...er... tool is great sometimes. More of my customers comment about the ability to whack a tuning fork on my knee and tune the whole piano. To them it fulfills the classic image of a piano tuner. Paul Chick ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 9:58 AM Subject: Re: Verituner > Me too. But then again, maybe not. I'm possessed of (by) a short attention > span when it comes to getting through a fundamentally uninteresting and > repetitious process. The easier it gets, the harder it becomes and I go > looking for fresh sources of aggravation. A machine to do my thinking for > me in one of the most tedious aspects of my work, and one I spend the most > time doing, would be hard on me in the long run. At first, I suspect, it > would be like finding money on the street - all profit. I would certainly > become immediately addicted to (dependent on) the machine and go into "wake > me when it's time to collect the check" mode. Soon, I also suspect, I would > feel that I had become the dray animal for the brains, rickshaw driver for > the boss, if you will, and functioning as a tool for the tool. It's like > the aphorism that a chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs. That > would be hard for me. I don't like being superfluous. I know, I know, I've > read the thousands of lines praising the virtues, and lots of folks may > find their own balance with their machines where the machines are just a > tool, like a table saw, but my table saw doesn't position the rip fence, > nor tell me where to index the stock on the miter gage so I can push it > through the blade. While I'm a far cry from being an expert tuner, what > feeble results I do produce come from my own talents, ears, brains, and > hands. They almost certainly aren't the best of all possible tunings under > the circumstances, but the process of creating and constructing these > flawed little works is, for me, what makes it tolerable to go out there and > do it day after day. Eventually, I'll give up and either buy (or write) an > ETD, or quit tuning altogether. For now, it's me, my fork, and my stone age > methods. > > Just some ravings from the cheap seats. > > Ron N >
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