At 10:39 AM 1/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: >If >I'm going fast, I suppose I'm more of an electronic tuner. Walking further through the minefield -- I hear this over and over again. People say that they use a machine for the speed. Of course, everyone will tell me to learn to use one, and then I'll understand, but I don't see where this speed is coming from. If I'm roughing in a tuning, I put the hammer on the pin, play the notes, and pull immediately, leaving it about where I want, then taking the hammer on to the next tuning pin. Now suppose I'm using the ETD. I have to look at the thing, see which way the lights are going, change the direction, and wait a second to see if they are more or less stopped. Then take the hammer on to the next note. And maybe work a switch? This sounds like it takes longer than what I'm doing aurally. I can see that if I got adept with the machine, it might save me some time getting to a more accurate level for the second pass. But then, apparently lots of people tune the unisons by hand, anyway, and tweaking and stabilizing unisons is what takes me the bulk of tuning time, anyway. So where is the time saving? Susan
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