[pianotech] Counts .......

[Duaine Hechler]

On 01/28/2011 08:50 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
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>     On 01/28/2011 06:56 PM, tnrwim at aol.com <mailto: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.
>     YES, my mentor, who is an RPT and used to tune aurally for 30+ years -
>     now - 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
>  
First, I can't speak for my mentor however when i was working with - him
- he had an active clientele of over 3,000.

Here, we go again, with another completely useless analogy.

I'm not afraid of anything.

And, here we go again, having to repeat myself:

I tried - at a convention - to take an aural tuning class with Mr. Jim
Coleman. 99% of what he was trying to get me to here, I could not.

Therefore, for me, that is the only way I have to go.

Duaine

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