Tuning/sight impaired ETD

[pianotune05]

Hi Tom,
I'll check this out.  Sometimes an ETD would come in handy especially in the high trebble on aweful pianos.  
Thanks again.  
Marshall

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Sivak 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:59 AM
  Subject: Re: Tuning/sight impaired ETD


  Marshall,

  I had dinner with David Carpenter a couple of years ago and he told me he was working on an adaptation for his Verituner for the sight impaired tuner.  He had gotten a grant from the government, I believe, to work on this project.  You might inquire with him about it.  Perhaps there is a prototype or Beta version available.

  Tom Sivak

  pianotune05 <pianotune05 at comcast.net> wrote:
    Hi David,
    I tune by ear, and I'm a new guy on the block and holding my ground I do add. ;)  In fact, I tried using ear plugs while tuning and that worked great.   I'm sight impaired and I have trouble reading the displays on these ETDs.  The lights I can see fine.  I think they have their place IMHO, :) but for me it's easier to just hone the skill of aural tuning.  
    Marshall


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: David Lawson 
      To: pianotech at ptg.org 
      Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 6:39 PM
      Subject: Tuning


      G'day to you all.
      As an oldie, and an aural tuner, and knowing very little about electronic tuning devices, I am amazed at the amount of reference there is to the later. Are there still people being taught aural tuning, or have those days gone? I find the ear to be the best way to judge what is required from a tuning of a particular piano. I may be wrong, however using an ETD seems to me to be similar to playing a digital keyboard, you get what they give you. Am I way off the beam, or just a little too old to judge?
      Love the banter.
      David Lawson  Wangaratta   Australia.

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