<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 5/11/2012 4:52 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4FACFD77.10102@cox.net" type="cite">Somehow, the presumption among ETD users is that aural tuning is stressful, yet aural tuners don't complain about stress and wish they had an ETD. Maybe it's just the aural tuners who do find it stressful who adopt ETDs as a result. A few ETD users I know went back to aural because they found it more satisfying. Doesn't matter at all either way, but I think the fewer false premises that are repeated and pounded as truths, the better. </blockquote> Concur. I don't understand the "stressful" argument at all. Is it stressful for a duck to float on a pond? Maybe ETD tuners trying to tune aurally (not the ones who tuned aurally for years, the ones who never really got familiar with the process) use TOO MANY checks? That could slow them down and stress them out. One uses tests to resolve anomalies in a tuning, not multiple tests for every note and interval. Well, this "one" does. I don't really understand the "time" argument, either. Doesn't it take time to watch the lights? Susan </body> </html>