Unison Flatter than each Individual string?

[Ron Nossaman]

>So you don't upgrade your shop tools, etc?

Sure I do. And when I have a large number of repetitive operations to do in 
the shop, I build jigs to do the thinking for me and keep the uniformity of 
the result as high as I can. Then I just mind the needs of the jig during 
the process. The results are more uniform, hopefully faster cycle time, 
with considerably less demand on me to produce those results. It also makes 
it a lot less interesting. The fun is in designing and building the jig.



> >Maybe they're scared to death they will find out how bad
> >a tuner they really are if they had a means of comparison.
>
>A very real possiblity...

Interesting point to pick out from that paragraph.



>Yeah, good points all of them...with this imperfection of the piano I 
>don't see the
>need to waste any more of my energy on the "hand-made" piano tuning than 
>necessary.

Ah, but the personal decision of what is wasted energy and what is 
necessary is precisely the point.


>The whole wonderfulness of the ETD is letting it do the roughing in and 
>letting your ear do the fine stuff.

Absolutely. I wouldn't give up my jigs without a fight. I'm a better 
producer of tedious repetitive task results because of them.

Ron N