Tuning Oral

[Joseph Alkana]

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There's a lot of blow hards on this list, but I don't believe any of =
them use the oral method :-)=20

While the list of technicians grows in the use of ETD devices, most of =
them never turn off their ears when crafting a tuning. An ETD is, after =
all, only a tool to help you achieve what the ear must finally approve. =
So in a sense a good ETD tuner always tunes aurally. The ETD may or may =
not increase your speed, prove helpful in the learning process and =
establish reference points not possible via any other method. It is a =
tool that when used properly can enhance a tuning for a given piano and =
give great freedom and physical comfort for the tuning process. In the =
hands of a person who blindly uses any device to dictate the position of =
a given note, disastrous results can occur, especially where poor =
techniques of hammer manipulation involved in setting both string and =
tuning pin are concerned.=20

The archives are filled with the pros and cons of ETD usage. There will =
be extremes of opinions at both ends of the debate over their usage. I =
hope you will digest all of them and choose your course well. FWIW.

An aural tuner now using RCT and his ears!=20
Joseph Alkana  RPT
josephspiano@attbi.com
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Kallie Swanepoel=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:40 AM
  Subject: Tuning Oral


  Hi All

  I'm on the list now for quite a while, but I don't remember any =
discussions
  on this.  So my apologies if this had already been discussed.

  Are there still technicians who tune orally, or are all using =
electronic and
  digital devices?  And are there tuning devices available for visually
  impaired or blind technicians?  Would the use of a tuning device =
improve
  tuning speed?

  Kallie Swanepoel
  SOUTH AFRICA
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