"Museum" tuners

[Clyde Hollinger]

Don,

I'm not quite sure which part you disagree with.  Certainly I think you would
agree with my last sentence.  My first sentence is just a comment on what one
finds in museums, but it certainly could be taken to imply that before long
nearly all aural tuners will have disappeared as obsolete.  I don't feel quite
that strongly, although quite clearly more and more tuners are using ETDs.

Maybe your disagreement is more with Susan, who classified herself as a "living
museum" tuner.  Care to comment?

Regards,
Clyde

Don wrote:

> Hi Clyde,
>
> I could not disagree more. There will always be those who believe that the
> only way to do a near perfect tuning is without a "box". I'm a die hard
> computer fan--but love it when the occaision arises to "beat the box" on a
> particular piano.
>
> At 07:14 AM 10/20/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Susan,
> >
> >Well...  yeah...  (this isn't going to sound nice)...  While some museums
> >display even recent works, others display items that have lost their
> practical
> >usefulness.  But indeed, we would be in a fix if the day comes when the only
> >tuners left are those who need a machine to determine whether or not a
> piano is
> >in tune.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Clyde
> >
> >Susan Kline wrote:
> >
> >> Shouldn't there be somewhere a "living museum" tuner, who
> >> never used the ETD, and therefore never was changed by
> >> its particular biases and requirements?  And I volunteer!