a different interpretation of tone or color

[Ron Nossaman]

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>This concept has always bothered me.....

I normally try to stay out of tuning (re-)discussions, but this has 
recently bothered me more and more as well.

It's been my experience, and is my conviction, that good solid hammer 
technique - with the result of getting a string to stay where you put it 
for more than a few seconds, takes far longer for most newbies to learn 
than "tuning" -  visual and/or aural.

So I don't particularly see the need for half a lifetime of aural tuning as 
being a necessary or even desirable prerequisite to taking up an ETD except 
that someone with half a lifetime of aural tuning experience should by now 
have a pretty good idea how to run a tuning hammer, where the newbie with 
either a fork or a box most likely does not. Half a lifetime tuning with a 
slide whistle is almost certainly better pre-qualification for switching to 
a modern ETD than the same amount of time in the tool crib at Boeing. And 
yes, I agree that the newbie with the box will on average turn out better 
tunings than the newbie with the fork.

That's it, I'm done.

Ron N

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