On 11/5/2010 11:16 AM, David Love wrote: > Think of it this way, the best tennis players don't need to actually see the > serve coming at them at 150 mph to know where it's going, they can > anticipate from the body position and movement of the server and so can > begin to react before the ball is actually on its way. And that's what they > do. It's a learned skill coming from countless hours of practice and > feedback. The same is true in tuning a piano. You (hopefully) learn to > anticipate the outcome from other feedback that you are getting. It takes > countless hours of practice but moreover a focus on developing an awareness > of those other inputs. That's what peak performance is all about. > > David Love Not exactly. This isn't a top of the mountain exalted expert thing. It's a very simple, very basic attitude approach that I've found to be useful to both right out of the egg beginners as well as techs with a lifetime of inefficient tuning behind them. It's easy to do, and just requires the (long proved difficult) suspension of intuitive disbelief necessary to actually try it for a while. The process is simple, it's the entrenched convictions that are the brick wall. You can't teach anyone anything. They have to want to learn enough to try a few things. Ron N
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