[pianotech] Fw: Tuning, was advertising

[Susan Kline]

On 1/26/2011 10:13 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
> practice, practice, practice, practice and on and on and on - which you
> get tired-er and tired-er and tired-er - your ears get tired-er and
> tired-er and tired-er and your hearing is going and going and going and
> going. So now after all that work to get better, you will probably need
> to spend major bucks for hearing-aids.
You want to get realistic, start here.

Are you saying that when you tune a piano with an ETD you wear earplugs
or muffs so you barely hear the piano at all?

Ears don't go bad from LISTENING! They are damaged by exposure
to loud noises, and by health problems like poor circulation
and advancing age. (But not mine, they are excellent, thank
heavens.)  You are just as exposed to loud sounds
when you tune with an ETD as when you tune aurally. Your ears
are just as vulnerable to loud sounds when you ignore them
as when you pay attention to them. It's a physical effect of
the vibrations, not a matter of mental fatigue.

As for hearing aids, if the ETD makes you more able to tune
large numbers of pianos as you claim, it is setting you up for
many more hours exposed to loud sounds, especially if you tune
in small rooms like practice rooms.

You go on and on and on when tuning with an ETD, as well, watching little
blinking lights or little whizzing spinning things. Eyes get a lot more
tired than ears, because all the muscles have to keep moving
and focusing. No eyestrain at all in aural tuning.

Aural tuning is not an obsolete technology like B&W TV. It is for
all eras, because it is very simple. One has direct musical
contact with the piano, without distractions. One chooses
what sounds the best musically, without having to spend time
second-guessing an electronic program.

Look, you pick from the different options offered by an ETD
by making musical choices, don't you? So why not just make
them directly, instead of looking at what a program thinks
you ought to do, first?

The final question in all of this is, do you like being dependent
on technology when you don't have to be?

Susan Kline





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