<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div>Does she want to learn to tune a piano, or learn how to watch a dial go round and round until it stops? If it's the latter, find a used SAT for cheap. If its the former, forget about an ETD, and have her buy a hammer, a few mutes, and teach her a few basics, of tuning starting with unisons. </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: Tom Gorley <tomgorley88@sonic.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 7:47 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] tuning equipment<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_1_aba4f28f-c3db-4bce-ba40-48444234c77a>The 50 year old daughter of a former client wants to dabble with piano tuning. She doesn't want to go into business, just learn something new. She wants to get a middle-of-the-road hammer.  Does anyone have an opinion on a basic ETD for her? <div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(34,58,168); FONT-SIZE: 20px" class=Apple-style-span><SPAN style="FONT: 20px 'Corsiva Hebrew'"><B><br> </B></SPAN></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(34,58,168); FONT-SIZE: 20px" class=Apple-style-span><SPAN style="FONT: 20px 'Corsiva Hebrew'"><B>   </B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(34,58,168); FONT-SIZE: 20px" class=Apple-style-span><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">Tom Gorley</SPAN></SPAN> <div><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: medium; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span> <div> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> <div style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Kokonor"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#910f08>Registered Piano Technician    </FONT></SPAN></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(62,0,147)"><SPAN><B>      </B></SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">(650) 948-9522</SPAN></div> </SPAN></div> </div> </BLOCKQUOTE></div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> <div style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(62,0,147)"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><br> </SPAN></div> </SPAN></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </SPAN><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline></div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </font>