Tuning/sight impaired ETD

[Tom Sivak]

Marshall,
   
  I had dinner with David Carpenter a couple of years ago and he told me he was working on an adaptation for his Verituner for the sight impaired tuner.  He had gotten a grant from the government, I believe, to work on this project.  You might inquire with him about it.  Perhaps there is a prototype or Beta version available.
   
  Tom Sivak

pianotune05 <pianotune05 at comcast.net> wrote:
          Hi David,
  I tune by ear, and I'm a new guy on the block and holding my ground I do add. ;)  In fact, I tried using ear plugs while tuning and that worked great.   I'm sight impaired and I have trouble reading the displays on these ETDs.  The lights I can see fine.  I think they have their place IMHO, :) but for me it's easier to just hone the skill of aural tuning.  
  Marshall
   
   
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Lawson 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 6:39 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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