Affleck Piano Tuning?(and Yamaha PT100/Verituner)

[Bill Ballard]

At 8:22 PM -0400 7/12/02, James Gammon wrote:
>Affleck Piano Tuning offers an "ebook" on "How to Tune Your Piano."
>Is is worth the $19.97?  I'm a beginner and interested in getting
>information from as many (reliable) sources as I can on tuning pianos
>aurally.
>
>On a completely unrelated note, does Yamaha still make the PT100?  Is
>this a good tuner?  How much do they cost new/used?  I can't seem to
>find info on them *anywhere* online.  (And while we're at it, are
>there any used Verituners around?)

You wouldn't be trying to get into this business on the cheap, 
concerned that $20 might be the right price to spend on a 
"how-to-book" and a tremendous loss if it turns out to be worthless?

I don't know why you would be interested in tuning aurally, that is, 
if you intend on earning a living from it. A sophisticated ETD would 
allow you to skip the first two years figuring out with your ears and 
your brain what a good tuning sounds like. It is a long two years, 
BTW. Just out of North Bennet Street in Spring of '72, I could barely 
make it through a 9am and 1pm two-piano. Two years later, four pianos 
was a regular day for me, but my hearing was still far ahead of my 
tuning.

If you really want to become an aural tuner, I'm not sure what the 
purpose of an ETD would be for you. Unless you need to earn money at 
it before you actually learn how we did it back in the old days. 
Anybody can buy an ETD. Not everyone has the ears for aural tuning.

Second-hand Verituners around? The unit only hit the market 12 months 
ago. The only way one of them might show up on the used market is 
dissatisfied owner. If someone's dissatisfied within the first 30 
days, under the satisfaction guaranteed policy, it'll end up back in 
Vertituner's hands. They'll gladly put you on the waiting list for on 
of those. But given the tiny market, and the sliver of that which 
returns a one for a refund, it will be a wait.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"You'll make more money selling my advice than following it"
     ...........Steve Forbes, quoting his father, Malcom
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