I gotta take a completely different direction as to the dangers of this and any tuning gadget that gives the user the option to just follow the dancing dial. Players, amatures and the like will by and large not be a problem... they simply are not interested in taking the time... bothering... and hey there is always the tuning hammer technique they gotta get reasonalbly good at... nooooo this isnt the danger.... The danger lies more close to home... and its about "professionals" getting lazy... not you guys and gals out there what are in the first ranks,,, you all (myself included) are too interested in what we can learn with these things to get lazy... but the new folks coming up... When we get to the point where we accept that a tuner does not personally have to know anything more then how to use a tuning hammer and an ETD.... we commit a kind of group suicide. If the day comes that the aural tuner disapears from this world... it will be our own doing me thinks. Grin... course we could always get to the point that everyone becomes so redundant that we have to have a revolution to blow up all the machines so we can start putting them back together again.... where did I read that... And ETD based on a completely different concept could actually be what we need to stem this nasty little tide. But then I am this ego maniac who thinks he's somekind of forward looking way ahead of his time suberbo.... so this probably aint interesting... argh de argh argh.... :) -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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