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[David M. Porritt]

Ryan:

Do you have any experience with an ETD or are your conclusions just speculation?

dp
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From: Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:37:48 
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One thing I can say for certain is that I would have lost several key
clients if I had showed up with one of "those machines" as clients sometime
put it. These are the types of clients who give prestige to your business
and lead to other work.

So ETD dependency definitely can limit you from a strictly business
standpoint. You may not know which clients are not calling you back because
they don't trust that you really know what you're doing. Those who become
high-level aural tuners an extra measure of respect not only from the
musical community, but also their peers.

I think of it like "bench regulators" vs "In the piano regulators". If all
your regulation is done on the bench, you are never going to satisfy a
certain class of client, and you will never know what a really sweet
regulation feels like.

I find my vacuum cleaner a much more useful tool than an ETD. :)

Ryan

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> wrote:

>  On 1/26/2011 12:22 AM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
>
> So, lets agree to disagree and for the fossils to accept this change and
> move on and allow each of us to tune pianos, make our customers happy
> and make some money.
>
>
> I certainly have never interfered with anyone tuning pianos using devices,
> or badmouthed the devices to my customers.
>
> While the ETD at present seems to be the fashion, I think it's wise to
> remember that the old way of tuning is still quite viable, and enjoyable.
>
> I don't think any piano tuner is worse off from being ABLE to tune without
> a device. I've watched a few people using ETDs to tune, and never felt
> tempted. It didn't look like all that much fun.
>
> If you could stop feeling inferior and threatened by aural tuning, I think
> you might enjoy learning it. It has considerable musical rewards, hearing
> all the different intervals in their variety, and enjoying the architecture
>
> of the whole thing. It's what one might call an enriching experience. All
> this without any thought for the day your batteries run low unexpectedly,
> or you drop your ETD and the screen shatters ...
>
> Susan Kline
>
>
>
>
>


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Ryan Sowers, RPT
Puget Sound Chapter
Olympia, WA
www.pianova.net

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