Against my better judgment, I'm finally weighing in. There are jut a few small things that I want to bring to light: 1) I agree that ETDs are consistent and precise. However, it disheartens me when a technician would give up striving for that level of consistency and perfection just because a machine can accomplish it by default. How do you think that the best aural tuners, people like David Andersen, got to their level of aural super-skill? They've spent their entire careers actively pursuing a high degree of refinement. That's my goal. There will be some bumps along the way, but those will be the most educational experiences! 2) Perceptionis everything. I've gained client's trust and business because I'm a aural tuner, but also lost customers who believed the only in-tune piano can be produced by using a machine. This begins to delve into the realm of psychoacoustics--what the ear perceives. A tuned piano is in the ear of the beholder! We can go down the pathway of confirmation bias and psychoanalysis but I don't have the time now (by the way--do any of you guys work?! I'm having a hard enough time keeping up with just reading these posts between my tunings, much less have a quick free moment to write this!). The listener is human, and their biases and perceptions vary greatly. I like to challenge my ears day in an day out, and force them to force me to produce a better and better tuning every day. Some of us may call that masochism, I call it an enjoyable career practice, and I wouldn't want it any other way! :) -Ben Ben Gac, RPT Ben's Piano Tuning (630) 291-5654 - cell (708) 488-1450 - office www.BensPianoTuning.com Ben at BensPianoTuning.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110128/19273e28/attachment-0001.htm>
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