Gosh, Phil, it is as simple and plain as the nose on your face. YES, you are using your ears and maybe stress was a poor choice of words. Maybe, "over worked", tired, taxing or equivalent thereof. With ETD tuners, for starters, you ONLY need to worry about the "main" note and its unisons and your ears are done (except for some minor adjustments) With Aural tuning, for starters, you have to tune the temperament + it's unisons. Then go up and down the scale doing the "aural tuning checks". Then, probably, another pass for fine tuning. So, doing all the "aural tuning checks" along the way makes your ears tired. NOW, you think your done. Oh, but, wait, you have do go back and make MORE adjustments - tiring your ear some more. Duaine On 05/11/2012 12:06 PM, Phil Bondi wrote: > Duaine said: > > <And, yes, any tuner still my need to get those hearing enhancers BUT an aural tuning puts undue stress on the ears.> > > Um..I've stayed clear of this debate until this gem came across my screen. > > Duiane, how can you make such a statement when you do not use your ears to tune? Do you realize you are dis-respecting > some of the most respected tuners in our profession now and in the past, PTG and non-PTG, who did not have the luxury > of ETD's? Disrespecting in the fact that those who tuned before ETD's were stressed with their profession? Let's not > forget those who tune aurally today, and have the technology of ETD's at hand. They're stressed? I've met some of > them, and they are some of the most stress-free people I know. I am not BS-ing for the sake of an argument..that's not > why I decided to chime in here - rather to try and have you realize the absurdity of that statement. > > Perhaps not. > > -Phil > > -- 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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