Tuning

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi David, The ETDs are only a tool that help a good tech become a better tech who is more rested at the end of the day ( IMHO ) Sort of like when I was growing up we dug ditch with a shovel  {{ Conn Strobatuner}} and now we use a back hoe or trencher { see below}.
When I was a teen and doing custom thrashing with my father, we started out with open air machines and ate dirt and chaff 10 hours a day.  After a few years got our first enclosed air conditioned cab. You dont have to think too hard to know who ran that machine <G>
At the end of each day my father would get off the combine tired but not exhausted and encrusted with dirt like me.
The next year after long hours and very hot days I was so exhausted one hot afternoon that I went to sleep while backing up in the field and tore the back end off my machine.  I drove to the farm where my father was working wondering what to say.
I crawled up on his machine, opened the door of his cozy cab and said "I think that we need to invest in an air cab for my machine." He asked why. Then I let him know what had happened. He never said a word just sort of nodded.
The next year we bought a watter cooled unit {{ Yamaha PT 100}} That helped a lot but after a few years of having it quit during the heat of the day we purchased the parts to upgrade to a fully air conditioned cab. {{SAT lll, Verituner, Tune Lab, Cyber Tuner }}
My Motto: "Work easier. Let a tool do the work for you."
Aside; the PT 100 never quit on me, it just had too many limits to what it would do for me, with the instrument being designed for Yamaha pianos. I know one tech here who does wonderful work with this tool,
Its just not for me.
I guess it is Sunday so I can write a missive.
Happy tuning all.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Lawson 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 5:39 PM
  Subject: Tuning


  G'day to you all.
  As an oldie, and an aural tuner, and knowing very little about electronic tuning devices, I am amazed at the amount of reference there is to the later. Are there still people being taught aural tuning, or have those days gone? I find the ear to be the best way to judge what is required from a tuning of a particular piano. I may be wrong, however using an ETD seems to me to be similar to playing a digital keyboard, you get what they give you. Am I way off the beam, or just a little too old to judge?
  Love the banter.
  David Lawson  Wangaratta   Australia.
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