<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4912.300" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Clyde:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In my work, I do a lot of repeat tunings of the same piano.  If I have a tuning for a particular piano in which I am very confident I don't do much by way of aural checks.  If I'm doing an unfamiliar piano or have set up a new tuning, I do quite a few aural checks.  The bass of most pianos are not predictable, and an ETD is using math to predict what is there.  This to me begs for aural checks.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>dave<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 1/12/02 at 9:47 AM Clyde Hollinger wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">Friends, <P>How many of you ETD users do aural checks?  Isn't that a waste of time, if you can trust the ETD?  Or can't they be trusted?  (I'm not giving my opinion -- yet, anyway.) <P>Clyde <P>David Love wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><FONT size=-1>To set each string in 5 seconds might be reasonable on some pianos.  But I don't see how that could possibly take into account setting a temperament (for aural tuners), taking measurements and calculating stretch (for ETD users), or going through any types of aural checks (which should happen for both).</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=2 Arial></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML> <PRE> _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________</PRE>