[pianotech] Octaves & Unions

Mr. Mac's tune-repair at allegiance.tv
Fri Feb 4 17:39:19 MST 2011


On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Israel Stein wrote:

> … This is where you have to trust your ear 100% - an ETD is worse than useless, it could get you in real trouble... 

In my opinion this comment is baseless. The only way an ETD
   could get you into real trouble is lack of understanding.

> On 2/4/2011, 11:59 AM, Susan Kline wrote:
>> 
>> … Then there's the question of whether whole sections have shifted, due to bright lights, or whatever. I suppose someone using an ETD has a decision to make at this point -- reset the machine? There's not time to retune the whole thing. 

Any tuner in this position would have to make a decision as to what to do.
This doesn't have anything to do with whether an ETD is used or not.

Keith McGavern



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