[pianotech] Aural tuning question

[David Love]

A person that is absolutely non musical with no musical training or talent
shouldn't probably become a piano tuner.  By that I don't mean the ability
to play, necessarily, but I do mean the ability to hear musically.  Tuning
is mostly learning to hear.  You can easily train yourself to recognize
various intervals and then learn to tune them by the standard aural
recognition methods involving coincident harmonics.  If you are unable to
grasp what that is or learn to hear them then it is likely that another
profession would be more suitable.  

Similarly, a person lacking any manual dexterity should probably not become
a surgeon, at least not one who will operate on me.      

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Duaine & Laura Hechler
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:29 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Aural tuning question

Maybe, I need to get to basics for this question.

I am a barbershop singer, so I have a sense of what a 3rd, 5th, m7th,
octave sounds like.

Now, assume for the sake of this question, a non musical person that has
absolutely no other training and talent, wants to be a piano tuner.

Without the aid of a ETD and has no concept of note relations (3rds,
5ths, etc), how is he expected to learn aural tuning ? And learn it well
enough to pass the tests ?

I don't see any other choice for this person to use an ETD - and - never
be able to pass the test - so - how does he get to be an RPT?

Duaine

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