I was trained to tune aurally back in the '70s, and was proud of of being an aural tuner. This continued for a few years, on in to my tenure as a university tech. Eventually, I gave in to using an ETD because I was battling a soprano in the adjacent practice room on one side, and a saxophone on my other side, causing headaches by mid afternoon. I did have one country customer with a low end grand who would not let me tune with a machine. A neighbor, down the road a piece, told her that tuning with a machine would ruin the piano. No attempt at explaining the "machine" tuning did any good, so I had one aural tuning each year. Good experience to tune aurally, occasionally. Last spring, a water bottle that I used to carry in my case leaked, rendering my SAT useless...since fixed...so I had to tune entirely by ear. While I tune using an ETD, I use it as a guide, always checking the temperament, octaves, etc. by ear. The ETD is not infallible due to scale imperfections. Those who tune with ETD's, should tune a piano aurally, now and then, to check out one's ability to do an aural tuning. Gary Doudna440 at gmail.com On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:33 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>wrote: > I tuned for 20 years aurally and now 15 years with a machine. Never had a > client comment one way or the other except as an interested inquiry. It's > amazing the mythology that are fabricated. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > (sent from bb) > ------------------------------ > *From: *"David M. Porritt" <dmporritt at gmail.com> > *Sender: *pianotech-bounces at ptg.org > *Date: *Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:00:23 +0000 > *To: *<pianotech at ptg.org> > *ReplyTo: *dmporritt at gmail.com, pianotech at ptg.org > *Subject: *Re: [pianotech] advertising > > Ryan: > > Do you have any experience with an ETD or are your conclusions just > speculation? > > dp > > Sent from my BlackBerry® > ------------------------------ > *From: *Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> > *Sender: *pianotech-bounces at ptg.org > *Date: *Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:37:48 -0800 > *To: *<pianotech at ptg.org> > *ReplyTo: *pianotech at ptg.org > *Subject: *Re: [pianotech] advertising > > 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 >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Ryan Sowers, RPT > Puget Sound Chapter > Olympia, WA > www.pianova.net > -- Doudnas PO Box 68 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 Doudna440 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110126/05b97250/attachment.htm>
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