MY ETD IS MADE BY SIEMENS-- IT'S CALLED A HEARING AID

[pianotune05]

It all boils down to the fact that whether we use our ears or ETDs, we still 
need to learn how to tune well good hammer tecneque etc.  Good ears and an 
ETD won't do anything for us if we cannot master and/or use the other tools 
of our trade.
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek at broadpark.no>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:54 AM
Subject: MY ETD IS MADE BY SIEMENS-- IT'S CALLED A HEARING AID


> Hi Techs
>
> Hopefully I can help everyone  or someone a bit.
>
> I received my second hearing aid about 6 months ago. I am a 69 year old
> Aural tuner who sees absolutely no benefit in ever owning an Tunlab or
> whatever. I am a concert tuner and to this day will put my tuning up
> against any of you. Among my customers are 4 phd's in piano performance,
> one master in piano performance, a large number of piano teachers
> etc.etc.etc. Oh Yeah---I am an rpt.
>
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>
>    /Being an aural advocate myself and one ofte times accused unjustly
>    of disdain for ETD's I can only say that anyone who simply does not
>    see any benifit in ever owning an ETD just doesnt have their
>    perceptionary facilities turned quite all the way on.  Choosing
>    whether or not too utilize the real and obvious benifits ETD's do
>    have or not is another matter./
>
> /Snipp snipp.../
> _______________________
>
> For God Sake---go get your ears checked people.Your ETDs don't hear this
> stuff. Half of you can't hear and don't know it. Piano tuners are
> probably among the absolutely worst hearing people in the world.
>
> Ron May
>
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>
>    /While the bit about hearing aids in itself is good stuff Ron... the
>    whole of your posts attentions towards ETD's is IMHO not.  You EARS
>    do not "hear this stuff" essentially any differently then the ETD
>    does. Its what happens beyond the sensory device itself that is sets
>    human aural perception  apart from ETD signal processing.  Given
>    that fact, the visual information given by an ETD can be sufficient
>    for human perceptionary tools other then strictly aural to process
>    resulting in a tuning every bit as fine and human as one does via
>    routing aural information through the ear.  One simply has to have a
>    good working knowledge tuning theory and use the brain to think
>    through what you are seeing. Tune Lab 97 is particularilly well
>    suited to this IMHO.
>
>    /
>
> /Cheers
> RicB/
>
>
>
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