MY ETD IS MADE BY SIEMENS-To WILLIAM R. MONROE

[Ric Brekne]

Gee, I dunno Ron... but I am a stark advocate of aural tuning skills and 
have waned more then a few cautionary fingers in the air about 
misuse/abuse of ETD's in my time... and despite that perspectory 
standing point I found your post incindiary and clearly anti ETD right 
off. To be frank... I saw really no real good reason for you to include 
the ETD related statements in your post which primarilly dealt with 
problemetik surrounding hearing injuries. The very subject title  seemed 
clearly to be mixing issues in a decidedly anti ETD manner.

If you wished to convey some thoughts relative to hearing aids, injury 
to hearing, and the like.... why the need to include comments about 
ETD's at all ?? Thats a different subject matter entirely.

Strikes me... an aural tuning advocate... that you were clearly taking 
potshots at ETD users in the course of your hearing aid post.  Perhaps 
you intended no such conveyance, or perhaps you did.  Thats your domain 
to figure out and deal with. But as for the perception of others ....  
well I for one certainly understand anyone taking affair here.

Cheers
RicB


Ron May states:

William, what in the world are you talking about. This is my first ever 
post
on this subject and I most certainly didn't mean to be anything close to
incendiary. As far as "auralier than thou" I guess that you and Alan could
be said to be "ETDer than thou". Could it possible be that some of you
haven't taken the time to learn how to tune auraly and just get jabbed at
the mere mention of aural tuning.  I have no problem with ETDs. I do get
upset when some ding-bat goes out and buys one along with a tuning lever 
and
the next day puts an add in the local paper claiming to be a "Master Tuner"
when he wouldn't know what a piano was if it fell on him. Other than 
that, I
have even thought of buying one but at my age and the amount of work I
entend to do I see no need.  As long as the professionals/concert artists I
deal with are excited about my tuning, I feel no need to invest in an ETD.
If I was younger and wanted to tune 5 pianos a day, I would probably invest
in one.