In message <4D4F07D4.3040003 at cruzio.com>, Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com> writes > >Your post does not tell me anything about what sort of tuners you are >referring to or what machines they are using, but you do say that your >exposure to ETD users is limited. The picture you paint of ETD tuners >"pressing the wrong buttons" gives the impression of someone who just >bought a machine and started tuning without any instruction about how >best to use the machine, aural checks, tuning hammer manipulation, etc. >- hardly a fair assessment. One could point out experienced aural >tuners doing equally bogus work. Not everyone is bent on being the best >and some are satisfied with just being in the game. Agreed there are bad tuners or tuners who don't care no matter what they use to get there the 3 Tuners I know that use them locally, two have been using them for over 20 years one for about 5 years. the latter was a not so good aural tuner whose scales were at best bad, I have to admit his tuning is better with the ETD on the scales but the base is still poor and the top treble is normally sharp this guy I only seen a few of his tuning lately. He uses a SAT, Now the other two have used them form day one, they used very old ones to start with, One now uses a computer, pass on the software the other uses a SAT. The tuning are for a shop manly on Yamaha and in the W/house nice and quiet no public. One guys tuning is more stable than the other. Granted most of the great unwashed would find most of tunings acceptable as they only use the middle. >>The tuners swing the note a long way out to put it back in, then seem >to knock hell out of the note. is this the norm for an ETD user. > >This is a description of a novice tuner, or possibly someone who never >progressed beyond such a formative stage, and has nothing to do with >the tuning device. If you have been reading all the posts in these >recent threads, you must know that ETD users can score very high on the >PTG tuning test. Hmm that was my first impression a few year ago. But.. not the bast place to see someone tuning a piano because of sound card variables. but lever control ect is there to see, just look at Youtube type in piano tuner. And point me to a good one. Barrie, -- Barrie Heaton PGP key on request http://www.a440.co.uk/ AcryliKey Ivory Repair System UK © http://www.acrylikey.co.uk/ Piano Castors http://www.piano-safety- castors.co.uk/
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