>Hi,
>Some one should put a stop to this:
I don't think we have much to worry about. It's essentially a
guitar-tooner, which bends each piano to the standard tuning
installed in the machine. This of course sets electronic tuning back
twenty-five years to the area before Dr. Sanderson's ground-breaking
innovation, a machine which could tune a piano to itself.
To quote from the web page:
>This system has the exact frequencies to four decimal places encoded
>in its memory chip, it compares the reading from each string with
>the numbers in memory, and signals with the light sequence as you
>approach the theoretically correct number. That's all there is to it.
But what does the DIY, gadget-buying American public know about the
sourness of a piano tuned to a standard tuning. If they have ears,
they'll fine out quickly enough. If they have brains, they'll soon
also discover that while this machine purports to sell you the ears,
the hands are another matter. Ward Widener apparently would have us
believe that you need neither. A fool and his money are soon parted.
More curious is what is essentially a commercial message is doing on
Middlebury College's web-site. Maybe Ed and Emily Hilbert should
check this out.
Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
"You'll make more money selling my advice than following it"
...........Steve Forbes, quoting his father, Malcome
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