[pianotech] aural vs edt

William Monroe bill at a440piano.net
Sat Apr 4 14:00:48 PDT 2009


Again, Ron,

You may have three, but I'm not talking about you.  I'd venture most ETD
tuners have one.  That's all.  I mean, some guys (no, no, not me,
uhhh....... a friend, yeah, that's it), have a ridiculous number of tuning
levers, but that doesn't mean that's the norm. <G>

WRM


On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> >From William R. Monroe:"How many ETD users have more than one device?..I'd
> guess few.  I agree there are solutions for ETD users (myself included - I
> only have one) but for mostfolks, if the unit fails, they have no back-up,"
> ***********************************
> Really?  What a concept - I've got three options betweenmy case, my pocket
> and the car...
> And from Ryan Sowers:"What raises my eyebrows  is so called "professional"
> piano technicians who can't tune two octaves in the middle of the piano to
> save their life."*******************************
> Those two octaves are the easiest for a machine to solve...And if you add
> the alternate temperament complication,well, it just seems like there's a
> misplaced value ofimportance for solving that ET puzzle aurally.
> The real ear skill that's valuable is the "musician's" ear to solve the
> more important puzzle of how to relate all the octaves to each other to make
> the piano "sing".
> Ron KovalChicagoland
>
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