And don't forget you had several offers to help you learn aural tuning. If you were still a PTG member, I'd offer to help you for free. If you can hear beats in unisons, you can hear what you need to learn aural tuning. -- JF On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Duaine & Laura Hechler < dahechler at charter.net> wrote: > John, > > This attitude is why I quit the organization. > > Duaine > > John Formsma wrote: > > It is highly unlikely that a one-pass "tuning", raising pitch 90-120 cents > will ever turn out well. It would probably never be up to RPT standards. > This is not to say that it might not ever happen ... "ever" is a long time. > But pianos just do not normally react this way. > > Duaine, may I respectfully say that you have disqualified yourself from > judging what should be on the RPT exam? If you "absolutely can't > understand the checks and > which one is faster/slower 3rds/4ths and all of that," then you really are > not qualified to judge what constitutes a good tuning. > > I'd have kept silent if you'd merely stated that you can tune better with > a machine than by ear. But you have made some statements that just ain't > so. > > -- > JF > > > -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081217/571c6d1b/attachment-0001.html>
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