John I can't imagine that members of the Flat Earth Society haven't seen the pictures taken by astronauts from space. In these pictures, the world is clearly round, and yet... I think you're giving Duaine too much credit. Tom Sivak --- On Wed, 12/17/08, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote: > 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
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