Great post Andre, as is your want. Personally I think back on my own development as a tuner and think about this "ETD learning" debate and wonder why on earth in todays situation we havent worked out really clearly defined basic learning ciriculum for tuning. The theory is quite accessable, as is putting it into "visual" perspective as it were to re-enforce the aural. Potentially, the time needed to learn quite advanced aural skills should be very significantly reduced. In fact we should be able to spit out much more advanced tuners both in relation to their understanding of the underlying theory and in their accomplished aural skills much more quickly and effectively then ever before. We often debate the aural skills segment of the tuning exam. I would think that exactly BECAUSE of the potential learning tool the ETD is we should have made this segment much more demanding then previously. I certainly think thats the direction we should be moving. Heck the ETD represents a potential teaching aid that can more then replace any learning scheme previously employed in tuning history. To say, as some do, that aural skills are simply not necessary anymore is to my mind of thinking ridiculous. Tuning is, and will always be an art form. Not because we want to defend some human aspect against the machine, not because of some fanatic need to reassure ourselves of some or another this or that.... but because the judgement of what is or is not "pleasant sounding", "in tune" or whatever words or descriptions one wants to use, requires a conciousness to have any meaning at all. Otherwise its all just noise.... if its even that. If one is not able to make these judgements... to hear and equate what one hears to both the rational theoretic and the more emotional musicality, then you are at best an extension of the machine, which in turn is the extension of someone elses programing. The ETD should never be the cause of this kind of development. Rather, the ETD is exactly that tool which potentially can arm us with greater levels of skill, understanding, and tuning creativity then ever previously attainable. At least thats my take on it all :) Cheers ! RicB antares wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > I find this discussion about aural versus ETD tuning highly interesting. > Some of you are very well spoken about the subject and highly educated. > I have no such education as I was forced to leave high school at a very > early age. > .................... > > And as for training a student I think the use of both (aural and ETD) might > be useful and even enlightening as the ETD is more than punctual and a very > efficient tutor. > > > Antares, > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC