Also an excellent written post !
And the exact truthness of this should make us all immediately wary when
someone -- anyone comes along with claims that their <<way>> is superior
to all others. Ok, clearly there are inferior approaches to anything
given any set of objectives. But once one is past a certain degree of
refinement in any skill or discipline, we move beyond what is better or
worse into differences in how one achieves a fine result.
This is the central truth of our craft. Anyone who is a serious
piano tuner uses their developed hearing skill in a global and
multi-leveled way to get to the same place: a musical, soaring,
stable, singing tuning. It doesn't ultimately matter one whit how
you get there: ETD, non-ETD, ET or non-ET, strip, no strip,
"partial matching," "whole- tone listening," light, stiff levers,
heavy, even impact levers, sitting low, sitting high, "impact" or
"jerk" or "wiggle" lever technique...the bottom line is this. Does
it sound fantastic?
That's all anybody really cares about, so I want to do it the way
it's most fun and fulfilling for me, AND the most idealized and
musical to my trained and demanding ears. Because my custom
protocols have worked so well for me, I want to share them. I don't
really care if you adopt them or not. I just want my colleagues to
produce the finest tunings in the best way for them.
David Andersen
Cheers
RicB
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