<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3px"><PRE><TT>> AND, to add injury to insult, the SMARTER the ETD's get, the LESS and > LESS is needed for aural tuning skills. And who is able to make them smarter, except people who can compare what the machine is giving them to what their ears are telling them? Susan</PRE></TT></BLOCKQUOTE></div> <div>I just heard a report on NPR about the shortage of nurses in hospitals. There is a shortage because, as one nurse said, there are too many patients, and the hospitals are not keeping up. The reason there are more patients is because of the new technology that is keeping people alive longer, even when their health is worse. So technology is working to keep people alive, but no matter how good the technology is, hands on, personal care is still needed to take care of the patients. Get the point?</div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sat, May 26, 2012 4:49 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Stretch in Tuning(s)<br> <br> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12px" id=AOLMsgPart_0_33306eba-af33-498f-95cb-7b52b341b89e><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>On 5/25/2012 10:26 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote: > Whether you or anyone else likes it or not, there are more ETD users, > without aural training, than ever, and it's only growing more and more > every year and aural tuners are going to become less and less every year. To the extent that is true, our profession, sadly, is moving downhill toward less capability, less willingness to invest effort, and greater ignorance. > > And has been proven over and over and over and over and over, ETD > tunings are well enough to provide every tuning from the home to > universities to symphonies, music studios and more. Assuming the operator is up to it as well. And to what extent are the symphonies and music studios, etc., just forced to accept who's out there for lack of better options? > > AND, to add injury to insult, the SMARTER the ETD's get, the LESS and > LESS is needed for aural tuning skills. And who is able to make them smarter, except people who can compare what the machine is giving them to what their ears are telling them? Susan </TT></PRE></div> </div> </font>