aural tuning

[Jon Page]

At 02:08 PM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>mitchkiel@olywa.net wrote:
>>     I've listened to lots tunings by PTG members, including tons of
>> examinee tunings when I was ETS chair. Perhaps it's an unfair example,
>>but examinee aural tunings had a much higher failure rate than electronic
>> tunings. 

One drawback to ETD's is they lend a credibility to less skilled persons.
There is a guy around here who knows nothing about how a piano
works but gets repair jobs (which fail) due to the assumption of customers
who think he knows what he's doing because the machine does a nice job.

I get called in to resurrect his attempts a few times a year.

I cringe when I think of all the slip-shod work being performed by
these charlatans, being enabled by ETD's. Let's not forget the
backs of matchbooks also, while we're at it.




Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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