[pianotech] [Pianotek] the big discussion

[Mr. Mac's]

On Feb 1, 2011, at 9:22 AM, David Love wrote:

> Yes, as I read back through the thread I realize things have gotten somewhat
> convoluted.  If I were to distill it down to a central point I would say
> this.  The ugly little truth is that most aural tuners don’t tune as
> accurately as they think they do.  I think the exam points that out.  That’s
> not to say that they don’t produce acceptable, even high quality musical
> results.  There is evidently some leeway in this thing that we do.  But to
> suggest that using a device which produces on average a more accurate result
> also produces a less musical result doesn’t really make much sense, unless
> you would argue that a less accurate aural tuning is still more musical than
> a more accurate etd tuning.  It would seem that there’s some resistance
> among some to accept the state of the art technology. …

Yep.

> … OK, now I'm done. 

You wish  :-)

Thanks for all the level headed input, David,
   however convoluted at times it became.

Keith