On 1/25/2011 9:14 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote: > Stretch - each note - how far - too far - not far enough - how do you > know how far is far enough. You hear it musically. All that you have written shows that you haven't had enough experience doing aural tunings to understand what the process is like. I've read some things other people have sent to the list along the same line, such as talking about "sweat-stained aural tunings" and the huge amount of time they take, and how one day someone got this really wonderful aural tuning, which they could never recapture, because they hadn't recorded it digitally. The tunings, day to day, concert and otherwise, are very close, very consistent in shape and feeling. It's not a struggle, really, it isn't. I think that some piano tuners who have learned with an ETD and used it ever since allow their judgment to be clouded by memories of struggle when attempting an aural tuning, possibly for the exam, which raises the stress level. You have to do a certain amount over time for the skill to slip into place. You ask for exactitude ... how exact do you think a piano tuning needs to be? Half cent? 1/4 cent? Let's say this -- day to day, good aural tuning is exact enough that someone listening to music (or playing it) could truly not tell the difference, one tuning to the next. Is there any other valid measure for a tuning? Musicality and stability? What else is there? Susan Kline, aural-tuning fossil P.S. Just because you followed one really poor aural tuner doesn't prove anything about the other ones. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110125/f1c3964c/attachment.htm>
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