aural tuning

[Jon Page]

Well at least he could tune.

If it weren't for the machine, my guy would still in the produce
section of the local food market chain.

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 05:36 PM 6/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Jon:
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>Years ago there was a tuner here in Dallas who tuned very well without ETD
>(actually the strobo tuner was the only ETD choice at the time.)  His repair
>work was terrible!  It can happen without an ETD.  Some tune well - one
way or
>another- but can't do anything else.  The worst case I came upon was a
customer
>who had just bought a new M&H "A" that had a buzz he couldn't fix.  He
worked a
>long time on it, then excused himself saying he was going to get a drill
so he
>could make a hole in the sounding board.  She didn't let him back in!  I was
>called by the dealer to fix the piano and calm down the customer.  It turned
>out to be a damper wire hitting a bass string.
>
>He was an exceptional aural tuner tho.
>
>dave
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>Jon Page wrote:
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>> 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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>David M. Porritt, RPT
>Meadows School of the Arts
>Southern Methodist University
>Dallas, Texas
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