Verituner

[Tom Servinsky]

Ron,
Promise me one thing...if you ever give up the piano trade, please consider
putting your wonderful sentences into children's books. I think a lot more
parents would find a lot more enjoyment when  reading to their children with
your wit at the helm.
Aside from your continuously challenging thoughts, I have thoroughly enjoyed
reading your threads out loud. Very poetic.
Tom Servinsky,RPT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: Verituner


> >Back to the Verituner...I have heard nothing but raves of this machine
and
> >find it tempting to fork over the mula for an upgrade.
> >I would love to road test it for a week
> >Tom Servinsky,RPT
>
> Hi Tom,
> Me too. But then again, maybe not. I'm possessed of (by) a short attention
> span when it comes to getting through a fundamentally uninteresting and
> repetitious process. The easier it gets, the harder it becomes and I go
> looking for fresh sources of aggravation. A machine to do my thinking for
> me in one of the most tedious aspects of my work, and one I spend the most
> time doing, would be hard on me in the long run. At first, I suspect, it
> would be like finding money on the street - all profit. I would certainly
> become immediately addicted to (dependent on) the machine and go into
"wake
> me when it's time to collect the check" mode. Soon, I also suspect, I
would
> feel that I had become the dray animal for the brains, rickshaw driver for
> the boss, if you will, and functioning as a tool for the tool. It's like
> the aphorism that a chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs. That
> would be hard for me. I don't like being superfluous. I know, I know, I've
> read the thousands of lines praising the virtues, and lots of folks may
> find their own balance with their machines where the machines are just a
> tool, like a table saw, but my table saw doesn't position the rip fence,
> nor tell me where to index the stock on the miter gage so I can push it
> through the blade. While I'm a far cry from being an expert tuner, what
> feeble results I do produce come from my own talents, ears, brains, and
> hands. They almost certainly aren't the best of all possible tunings under
> the circumstances, but the process of creating and constructing these
> flawed little works is, for me, what makes it tolerable to go out there
and
> do it day after day. Eventually, I'll give up and either buy (or write) an
> ETD, or quit tuning altogether. For now, it's me, my fork, and my stone
age
> methods.
>
> Just some ravings from the cheap seats.
>
> Ron N