Susan Kline wrote: > At 09:17 PM 10/19/2002 +0200, Isaac wrote: > >I am very sure that the modern ETD are the future of the tuning world, > >but let's keep some magic in the job, it is very important too. > > Exactly. Thank you. > > I can readily admit that for some tasks, such as tuning three pianos > to each other, or repeating a tuning for a recording some days after > the first session, an ETD is very handy, or possibly nearly indispensable. > I agree Isaac, and good point Susan. I think one of the things that continues to get lost in this ofte times hotly debated subject is that ETD's are actually being misused, and really quite more often then advocates want to admit. Many of us use ETD's, or have used them to our benifit, and find them useful. What bothers me is the chorus of screams with near lynch mob levels of aggresivity when this very real and valid concern is raised. We are given the Colman / Smith example, yet it is very conviently forgotten that both these gentlemen have vast experience in our field, as ear tuners. We are told that beggining ETD tunings are often better then beggining ear tunings (an obvious fact that adds nothing to the "why learn to hear" debate). And we are accused of being guilty of all manner of varying ego mania disease. I keep saying it cause I've been down both roads.... ETD's are great but a machine remains a machine, and if we (and we seem to be willing to do so) simply drop any and all requirements for listening then we loose our trade entirely. There IS a perspective of understanding piano sound is that comes only from listening. And that perspective is by definition a human one. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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