On 01/28/2011 06:56 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: Duaine What does doing church tunings have to do with my question? The question is, has any one ever evaluated your tuning? I'm talking about someone who knows what a tuning is supposed to be, not just a satisfied customer. Someone who has at least passed the RPT exam, but preferably a current or former CTE. ES, my mentor, who is an RPT and used to tune aurally for 30+ years - ow - for close to 15 years - uses Cybertuner. And when was the last time any one evaluated his tuning? I'm not trying to be picky, but we all fall into a rut, and sometimes we need to do something to get us out of that rut. Take a tuning class, ask another tuner to evaluate your tuning, take part in a tuning exam, or best, sit in on a master tuning. Schedule to spend an extra hour at a high quality piano, and really evaluate your tuning, doing all the test and checks that have been mentioned on this list on several occasions. Then you will know if your ETD tuning is as good as it is supposed to be. As I said before, when I tune a piano with an ETD, I then tune the piano again, without it. There is a difference. But I guess you will never know that there is a better tuning than what the Cybertuner will give you, because you don't know what to listen for. The best analogy I can give is this. There are basically two ways to get from Florissant to Sappington. One is by taking Lindbergh, the other is on 270. You're afraid to get on 270, because people drive to fast, so you only take Lindbergh. You claim up and down that it's the only way to get to Sappington, even when everyone else tells you 270 is much faster. So here's an idea. Instead of insisting that Lindbergh is the only way to get to Sappington, why don't you take some driving lessons, and learn how to drive on 270? Then you can make your own decision. It does't mean you HAVE to take 270 all the time, or that you HAVE to take Lindbergh. In fact, there are times when you might need to take both part of the way. But the big difference is, you'll have a choice, because you know how to take both. And people won't think you're an ass because you keep insisting Lindbergh is the only way to drive to Sappington. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 4:00 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Counts ....... On 01/28/2011 06:56 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: Duaine What does doing church tunings have to do with my question? The question is, has any one ever evaluated your tuning? I'm talking about someone who knows what a tuning is supposed to be, not just a satisfied customer. Someone who has at least passed the RPT exam, but preferably a current or former CTE. ES, my mentor, who is an RPT and used to tune aurally for 30+ years - ow - for close to 15 years - uses Cybertuner. -- uaine Hechler iano, Player Piano, Pump Organ uning, Servicing & Rebuilding eed Organ Society Member lorissant, MO 63034 314) 838-5587 ahechler at att.net ww.hechlerpianoandorgan.com - ome & Business user of Linux - 11 years -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110128/7051f01f/attachment-0001.htm>
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