>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 Matt, I passed the test aurally and now use an acutuner, for background, and I wasn't being contentious in my previous post, but do take exception to your comments about "machine tunings". I make my modest living on piano tunings not machine tunings. Perhaps I'm being a bit sensitive, but I saw first hand, (long before ever using an ETD) the resistance and bias against ETD's in the 70's. (Just ask Dr. Sanderson) This discussion has been beaten to death over the years and you have the right to your opinion but each method needs to be respected, not denigrated. I'm not looking for a "snip Fest" Respectfully Tom Driscoll RPT
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