On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:55 PM, Richard Moody wrote: > What > does recording their agreement onto a machine accomplish? If a mistake in the examinee tuning is found through running aural beat-rate checks, then the reference tuning on the ETD is used to assign a score to the mistake. No points are deducted unless a tuning error is aurally verified. > If they > agreed without a machine on the "master tuning" why can't they do > the same for the candidate tuning? They can and they do, or no points are deducted. > It makes sense to evaluate a machine tuning with or by a machine. > But to evaluate an aural tuning, > logically it should be done by aural tuners. It is. > That the Guild doesn't issue "aural certificates" or "machine > certificates" I think is missing out on a significant issue of > interest > to many in the Music Industry and the private sector as > well. This has been suggested in the past (by me at one point), but PTG has opted to stick with the present system which is a good one. Kent Swafford
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