[pianotech] Stretch in Tuning(s)

[Susan Kline]

On 5/26/2012 11:52 AM, Encore Pianos wrote:
>
> So your point is, Wim, that we all would be dead already without our 
> ETD's?   I'm going to start sleeping with mine. J
>
> Will
>

I can't believe that would be good for it, Will, though it probably has 
a pretty sturdy outer case.

We could have a high old time about a medical industry which considers 
keeping people very ill and extremely medicated but alive for a long, 
long time to be the ideal outcome of conventional medical care .... but 
somebody would get their knickers in a twist for sure.

I feel for nurses -- all that time and care and fatigue trying to help 
people who are the victims of a failed paradigm. I think that nurses 
often know better what should be done than doctors. It must be very 
galling for them.

Wim is right to point out that the fanciest technology is pretty useless 
without skilled and patient people to employ it, IMO. One could say the 
same thing about house builders -- same tools, same materials, same 
blueprints -- but one house is neat as a pin while another is a slipshod 
mess.

s


> *From:*pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *tnrwim at aol.com
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 26, 2012 2:08 PM
> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org
> *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Stretch in Tuning(s)
>
>     >  AND, to add injury to insult, the SMARTER the ETD's get, the LESS and
>
>     >  LESS is needed for aural tuning skills.
>
>       
>
>     And who is able to make them smarter, except people who can compare what
>
>     the machine is giving them to what their ears are telling them?
>
>       
>
>     Susan
>
> I just heard a report on NPR about the shortage of nurses in 
> hospitals. There is a shortage because, as one nurse said, there are 
> too many patients, and the hospitals are not keeping up. The reason 
> there are more patients is because of the new technology that is 
> keeping people alive longer, even when their health is worse. So 
> technology is working to keep people alive, but no matter how good the 
> technology is, hands on, personal care is still needed to take care of 
> the patients. Get the point?
>
> Wim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org <mailto:skline at peak.org>>
> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>>
> Sent: Sat, May 26, 2012 4:49 am
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Stretch in Tuning(s)
>
> On 5/25/2012 10:26 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
> >  Whether you or anyone else likes it or not, there are more ETD users,
> >  without aural training, than ever, and it's only growing more and more
> >  every year and aural tuners are going to become less and less every year.
> To the extent that is true, our profession, sadly, is moving downhill
> toward less capability, less willingness to invest effort, and greater
> ignorance.
> >  
> >  And has been proven over and over and over and over and over, ETD
> >  tunings are well enough to provide every tuning from the home to
> >  universities to symphonies, music studios and more.
> Assuming the operator is up to it as well. And to what extent are the
> symphonies and music studios, etc., just forced to accept who's out
> there for lack of better options?
> >  
> >  AND, to add injury to insult, the SMARTER the ETD's get, the LESS and
> >  LESS is needed for aural tuning skills.
>   
> And who is able to make them smarter, except people who can compare what
> the machine is giving them to what their ears are telling them?
>   
> Susan
>   
>   

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