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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We will consider adding the info to the Chapter Tool Kit when your team has something compiled. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Ed Sutton <ed440@mindspring.com><BR>To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org><BR>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:47:39 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Electronic Tuning Preferences<BR><BR>Someone on the Journal is.<BR>My experience and opinions are similar to yours.<BR>Physiologically, our brains are "visually dominant," i.e. visual information <BR>overrides aural information, so I have the concern that<BR>staring at a spinning display can make us less aurally sensitive, may even <BR>prevent a beginner from learning exquisite aural discernment.<BR>During his talk in Rochester, Askenfelt said "Sound is just a boring fact. <BR>I'm only interested in what I can photograph or measure," and later, in <BR>response to a question "I don't know, that's something that only you tuners <BR>can hear."<BR>Could we also reach the day
when tuners said "I don't know, that's something <BR>only the old aural tuners used to hear. I've looked at every note on your <BR>piano, and they all look perfect."<BR>Besides, hearing is fun. I intend to hear as much as I can, as long as I <BR>can.<BR>Ed S.<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: <<A href="mailto:rwest1@unl.edu" ymailto="mailto:rwest1@unl.edu">rwest1@unl.edu</A>><BR>To: "College and University Technicians" <<A href="mailto:caut@ptg.org" ymailto="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A>><BR>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:20 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Electronic Tuning Preferences<BR><BR><BR>>I wonder if anyone on the exam committee and the Journal is taking notes <BR>>on this topic. It will come up repeatedly because newbies will always <BR>>wonder about the very issues that have been raised in this thread. An <BR>>article that outlines the aural/etd tuning controversy would
be a good one <BR>>for the Journal and should be put Chapter Toolkit so that chapters have <BR>>ready access to information about some of the issues. It would be good <BR>>for Associates to have in their exam prep materials.<BR>><BR>> Secondly several years ago I made the deliberate decision to be an aural <BR>> tuner just so that I wouldn't lose the aural skill that I had worked so <BR>> hard to master. For several years I went over to the "dark side" and <BR>> tuned almost exclusively with the ETD. In one of those epiphany moments <BR>> that I described in my last post, I realized that the quality of my <BR>> tuning wasn't up to my old aural standards. It wasn't a judgement <BR>> against the ETD; it was a realization I wasn't paying attention to my <BR>> work. As I started to wean myself away from a heavy reliance on the
ETD, <BR>> I realized that my aural skills had atrophied. So I decided that if I <BR>> wanted to keep my aural skills at the highest level, I would rely on my <BR>> ears rather than my eyes. Philosophically I decided that because music <BR>> is primarily an aural phenomenon, access to my brain should be via the <BR>> ears when tuning. My eyes are an equally valid way of accessing my brain <BR>> for tuning purposes, given the accuracy of ETD's, but music is not seen, <BR>> but heard. Also maintaining a refined aural skill links me to all those <BR>> folks who have tuned before me, and have explored all the various <BR>> intellectual facets that make tuning an interesting mental as well as <BR>> practical pursuit.<BR>><BR>> So I wouldn't call myself a hybrid tuner any more. I use an ETD for <BR>> setting my A and for pitch raises. Otherwise I gladly
open myself to the <BR>> satisfaction that aural tuning gives me as well as all the quirks and <BR>> failures that exclusively aural tuning can engender.<BR>><BR>> Richard West <BR><BR></DIV>
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