I know I shouldn't beat my head against a wall, but if I don't, I won't feel the relief from stopping... :-) I'm an associate. I'm learning aural tuning and I don't think it's outdated. To me it's just plain smart. Put simply, many of us depend on our skills for our income. If you're out tuning with your ETD and it breaks, what do you do? I'm guessing you just lost some income, not to mention the possibility of a client who might add, "Well, can't you just tune it by ear?" I know you'll say you have a backup, or an iPhone or something. But when the batteries fail, the hard drive crashes, or the electricity goes out, what will you do? As an airline pilot, too, I find having more than one option for as many scenarios as possible to be a highly beneficial thought process for the continuation of my family lineage. If you have one, and only one option, then you have no option. It either works or it doesn't. You get paid or you don't. Secondly, whether you choose an ETD or aural tuning, is irrelevant. As someone else stated on here (sorry for being unable to attribute it and the horrible paraphrasing...) "It's not the pots or the pans, it's the chef." ETD or aural is irrelevant if you don't have a good hammer technique and a good feeling for setting a pin. I surmise, Duaine, from your stated client responses, that people like your tunings. The ETD is a tool and assisted, but it would be the knowledge passed to you by your mentor and your assimilation of that knowledge that ultimately decides the fate of your tuning. Although, I haven't heard Susan's tunings personally, I have it from people I know and trust that her aural tunings are at the upper end of the scale. Electricity or not, Susan will always get her work done, and quite well at that, I imagine. I don't fear the aural tuning exam. I relish the opportunity to rise to the occasion, master a skill I lack and experience the pride, the joy and the satisfaction of accomplishing something that was daunting and challenging previously. As for the aural tuning exam, I say, Bring it on...! :-) Regards, Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC www.mccallpiano.com Murrieta, CA 951-698-1875 On Jan 30, 2011, at 00:36 , Susan Kline wrote: > On 1/30/2011 12:07 AM, Duaine Hechler wrote: >> >> On the other hand, as my suspicion, the more you force an outdated form >> of tuning like aural tuning, Associate members are going to stay >> Associates. > > Aural tuning is for all time. It is so good to know. It feels so right. > It sounds so beautiful. If it didn't exist, some people would put away their > flashing spinning lights and invent it. The smart ones. > > Whether anyone stays an Associate, becomes an RPT, or doesn't belong to > the PTG at all does not have much cosmic significance, especially > long term. You, for instance, would be far better off totally ignoring > the test and your status. Stop trying to make everyone say you don't > need to learn aural tuning. Just let go of it all, it isn't helping > you to fight the obvious over and over again. > > Just continue learning your trade as best you can. > > Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110130/61272a63/attachment-0001.htm>
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