[pianotech] Subject: understand the relationship of theheavenly bodies

Duaine Hechler dahechler at att.net
Sat Feb 5 23:02:22 MST 2011


WOW, Wim, we agree on something.

I've been trying to say this for 11 years now - almost since I started
in this business.

Amazing, Duaine

On 02/05/2011 10:09 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
> From what a number of you have been saying, as long as you are
> perfectly satisfied with your ETD, and you know it can produce a high
> quality tuning that you are satisfied with day in and day out, there
> is no way you're going to go to the trouble of learning to tune the
> middle two octave aurally.
>  
> Ironically enough, I've proposed to "the powers" of the PTG to
> eliminate the aural portion of the Tuning Exam for quite some time
> now, but to make section 2 and the unison sections more stringent.
>  
> I don't want this to become a topic of conversation on this list,
> because that is what the PTG-l is for, but perhaps it's time for the
> ETS Committee, the Board, and Council, for that matter, to start start
> talking in that direction. Perhaps it's time the PTG moved into the
> 21st century, and face the reality that the new electronic tuning
> devices are here to stay, and that by ignoring that reality, it is
> hurting the membership of the organization. 
>  
> Wim

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