a different interpretation of tone or color

[antares]

Well Ron,

(I hope you're not angry with me, are you?)
When I said that I thought it was a good idea to be able to tune aurally
before using da box I actually meant to say that it comes in handy if the
battery goes low or out.
It is like the difference between to boatsmen,  they both know how to handle
a ship, but one can swim and the other not.
May come in handy if  you fall over board right?

So what I wrote was not meant as a form of criticism towards people who can
tune with a box only, but more a reaction on the statement that ETD's can
never replace the human ear.



friendly greetings
from

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

"where music is, no harm can be"

visit my website at :  http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/


> From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net>
> Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:59:37 -0500
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: a different interpretation of tone or color
> 
> 
>> 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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