<div> Hmmm. Quibble. Our senses don't lie. They give us perfectly usable information. The filters, biases, and lenses we consciously and unconsciously construct from birth help our brain refract our senses into "lies" (is a "white lie" all of the colors of a lie at once?) :-)<br> <br> P<br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net><br> To: l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net; Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:49 pm<br> Subject: Re: ETD to the Rescue for Hearing Impaired?<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_0898be8d-a8c9-4512-b1e2-79472ee86057" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Leslie Bartlett wrote: <br> > I tuned for Avery Todd at UH for several years, and he always complained > that my highs and lows were always too low. I thought he was just too > critical. But when I got my hearing aids, I found I had lost a whole > world and didn't know it. If one has lost even a relatively modest part > of hearing, everything about sound changes, and no matter what a danged > machine says, the ears are going to hear what they hear. I found out the > hard way. I think all tuners over the age of 40 should have their > hearing checked annually, but the probably seems unreasonable. But we're > in the hearing business, and if ours is impaired we simply cannot do > justice to ourselves and our customers. <br> > les bartlett <br>  <br> You're absolutely right. Our reality is very much defined by our senses, and our senses do lie to us. <br> Ron N <br> </div>  <div id='u8CAC8BE78B609E9-BEC-592A' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">It's time to go back to school! Get the latest trends and gadgets that make the grade on <A title="http://shopping.aol.com/back-to-school?ncid=aolins00050000000007" href="http://shopping.aol.com/back-to-school?ncid=aolins00050000000007" target="_blank">AOL Shopping</A>.</FONT> </div>