At 10:14 AM 7/16/02 -0400, you wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org] On Behalf >Of Matt Wynne >Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:27 AM >To: pianotech@ptg.org >Subject: Re: Affleck Piano Tuning?(and Yamaha PT100/Verituner) > >At 01:58 PM 7/14/02 -0500, you wrote: > >I'd like to bring some balance to this rant session. There are > >technicians that can tune well above minimum CTE >standards(i.e.%99-%100) > >with an ETD, and can tune unisons aurally at a similar level(i.e.%100), >but > >can't tune a temperament aurally that will pass. > >So if the machine breaks, are you out of business? > >Matt > >Matt, > Yes , Out of business because we all know there us only one ETD >issued to each person in their lifetime. It breaks and you enroll in Air >Conditioning school.Or you use your backup,or next day a new one , or >work up on your aural skills, or reschrdule your tunings and clean the >shop. Respectfully, Tom Driscoll Sorry Tom, I wasn't trying to instigate a snip-fest. Actually, I started out as an ETD tuner (with a PT-100, they don't work) and this was a question I asked myself. Since I was too cheap to buy a backup machine, I decided on slowly developing my aural skills. Moving up to a SAT allowed me to hear what temperments were supposed to sound like, but I soon found that I was having to correct the SAT more often than not. Maybe the current generation of ETDs produces flawless temperments, I haven't tried them, but I kind of go down for the it's-me-against-the-piano sort of thing. Hey different strokes for different folks - Its a big world with lots of room for everyone. I've known plenty of people who make a fine living off of machine tunings. My bit Matt
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