Dear diehard aural tuners, I'm curious . . . . . Do you (or does anyone) know of a full time tech who has used an ETD for a period of time (enough to really understand how it works), then decided, for whatever reason, to go back to tuning aurally? I think I'm correct in saying that most of the RPTs discussing this who are ETD users passed their exams prior to "converting". . . . . . whereas the aural tuners in this debate haven't run a machine through its paces, so their observations aren't really observations, but rather concerns about how they imagine it works. An ETD "listens" to all the intervals at once, initially, and produces the smoothest tuning that the piano's scale will allow. You can then tweak it to your heart's content, but I'll bet that most of the time, in the process of "improving" some intervals, you're making others worse (keep in mind, you can only hear one interval at a time . . . . not very efficient.) OK, so it has your personal stamp on it, but unless the client is impressed with your "improvement", I don't see the point. I have other outlets for expressing myself artistically. Carl D. Root, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100416/faca528a/attachment.htm>
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