Affleck Piano Tuning?(and Yamaha PT100/Verituner) - Tom

[Matt Wynne]

At 10:14 AM 7/16/02 -0400, you wrote:


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of Matt Wynne
>Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:27 AM
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Affleck Piano Tuning?(and Yamaha PT100/Verituner)
>
>At 01:58 PM 7/14/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'd like to bring some balance to this rant session.  There are
> >technicians that can tune well above minimum CTE
>standards(i.e.%99-%100)
> >with an ETD, and can tune unisons aurally at a similar level(i.e.%100),
>but
> >can't tune a temperament aurally that will pass.
>
>So if the machine breaks, are you out of business?
>
>Matt
>
>Matt,
>         Yes , Out of business because we all know there us only one ETD
>issued to each person in their lifetime. It breaks and you enroll in Air
>Conditioning school.Or you use your backup,or next day a new one , or
>work up on your aural skills, or reschrdule your tunings and clean the
>shop. Respectfully, Tom Driscoll


Sorry Tom,
I wasn't trying to instigate a snip-fest.  Actually, I started out as an 
ETD tuner (with a PT-100, they don't work) and this was a question I asked 
myself.  Since I was too cheap to buy a backup machine, I decided on slowly 
developing my aural skills.  Moving up to a SAT allowed me to hear what 
temperments were supposed to sound like, but I soon found that I was having 
to correct the SAT more often than not.  Maybe the current generation of 
ETDs produces flawless temperments, I haven't tried them, but I kind of go 
down for the it's-me-against-the-piano sort of thing.

Hey different strokes for different folks - Its a big world with lots of 
room for everyone.  I've known plenty of people who make a fine living off 
of machine tunings.

My bit

Matt