aural versus ETD

[Concert Piano Service]

On 22-jan-2007, at 18:21, David Andersen wrote:

> I guess the question I have for all you ETD users is this, and I  
> would deeply appreciate honesty here: where is your attention when  
> you tune a piano? Do you listen in a focused, calm, attentive,  
> relaxed way, giving your self to the world of sound? Or are you "on  
> automatic," and free to roam through your thoughts, dreams, and  
> schemes, putting the bulk of your attention on the stream of dialog  
> in your head? I believe it's an important question, and I hope I  
> get both honesty and collegiality in the replies, if any.
>
> Happy Monday, kids.  I'm off to work......
>
> David Andersen
>



And again (this is an old conversation), and with my deepest respect  
I do not agree.
I have tuned an incredible amount of piano's with them pinky ears,  
and when I did my final concert grand tuning course at Yamaha, it was  
the finest tuning I've ever done.
Why? because the skills were honed to the limit - the limit, but it  
took me 2 hours to reach that limit, and I realized immediately that  
customers do not want to pay for a 2 hour tuning.

Soon afterwards (we're now talking about the year 2000), I found out  
that the Verituner gives me exactly that very tuning, and, without  
any stress or fatigue, and within 1 hour. The most difficult  
instruments suddenly turned into 'a peace of cake'.
My best customers, and they are professionals, demand a tuning done  
with the VT.
I tuned at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for about 2 years with the  
VT and I swear that the instruments there have never sounded so in  
tune, finally.

Every now and then I tune aurally and, to my surprise, it is not a  
problem at all. All those years of aural tuning pay off, and within 5  
minutes I am back to 'natural', and the tuning I make is definitely  
good enough, just like before.

So, what I am actually saying, is that it is possible to do both, but  
one has to actually do it both ways.

I am now getting slightly older and a little more dented, and I  
prefer tuning with as little stress as possible.
That's what my ETD does for me.

btw, an ETD is a great instrument for learning to tune rock steady  
because one can SEE what happens after a major blow.
Then there is the matter of the unisons : I personally think it is  
more important to make beautiful unisons then to make the most  
perfect tuning in the world.

and again,

friendly greetings
from
André Oorebeek

Antoni van leeuwenhoekweg 15
1401 VW Bussum
the Netherlands

tel : 0031 35 6975840
tel : 0031 652388 008

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no harm can be


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