I learned to tune aurally but I've used the Accu-Tuner for over ten years now. When it broke down last Thursday I immediately sent it to Inventronics. It was to be gone only a couple days. I re-scheduled my tunings for those days. I could have kept those appointments and done the tunings aurally, but I believe it would have taken me about three times as long to produce the same quality tuning that would have been accomplished with the use of the Accu-Tuner. One of my recent customers said that her last tuner took over three hours to tune her piano. Yet she liked my tunings better. If I had to spend three hours on each tuning, I'd find another vocation. If a carpenter proposed to build my new house with a handsaw, I'd probably look for another carpenter. Still, those tuners who can do an excellent tuning aurally in a reasonable amount of time have my admiration. Walter Sikora, RPT Chapel Hill, NC At 01:38 AM 5/15/97 +0000, you wrote: My view is that no matter how many >other possibilites there may be for that tuner you portray, I still >question whether a person can be called a piano tuner without being able >to tune a piano with basic tools. Would you be suggesting that an >electronic tuning device (EDT) is a basic tool? What do others think? >----Joel
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