On 05/11/2012 09:26 AM, Susan Kline wrote: > On 5/11/2012 4:52 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: >> Somehow, the presumption among ETD users is that aural tuning is stressful, yet aural tuners don't complain about >> stress and wish they had an ETD. Maybe it's just the aural tuners who do find it stressful who adopt ETDs as a >> result. A few ETD users I know went back to aural because they found it more satisfying. Doesn't matter at all either >> way, but I think the fewer false premises that are repeated and pounded as truths, the better. > > Concur. I don't understand the "stressful" argument at all. Is it stressful for a duck to float on a pond? > > Maybe ETD tuners trying to tune aurally (not the ones who tuned aurally for years, the ones who never really got > familiar with the process) use TOO MANY checks? That could slow them down and stress them out. One uses tests to > resolve anomalies in a tuning, not multiple tests for every note and interval. Well, this "one" does. > > I don't really understand the "time" argument, either. Doesn't it take time to watch the lights? > > Susan WOW, Susan, what was the point of the bigger and bold font ????? Anyway, the MAIN stress point is the concentration of "hearing" and "listening". Yes, call me crazy, but I'd rather save my ears - and - my brain (as in sanity) with respect to hearing and listening and, in the case with Cybertuner, watch a turning circle to tell me whether a note is flat or sharp, wait for it to stop and fill in when a note is dead on. WHY wouldn't anyone do that. (Who knows, maybe, it would keep the aural tuners from getting those dreaded hearing enhancers (aka Hearing Aids). And, yes, any tuner still my need to get those hearing enhancers BUT an aural tuning puts undue stress on the ears. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years
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