<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Accu-Tuner ad</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> on 11/7/03 10:30 PM, Erwinspiano@aol.com at Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE> Anyone understand what I mean? Please be gentle... Wayne Lutzow Lincoln, CA Sacramento Valley PTG </BLOCKQUOTE>   Wayne  I applaud you for your candor honesty, & truthful assessment of = your own tuning. You can obviously hear & have an intuitive idea as to w= hat it is a well laid out tuning sounds like. With these qualities you will = find what you're looking for<FONT= FACE="Times New Roman">. Peter Clark is a good friend of min= e & also one of the finest tuners, & vouchers I've ever worked with.= I would ask him to give you some guidance. He's a generous helpful person &= amp; has done much teaching in your area.   You must use your ears to check your tuning which means develo= ping aural skills to the point that they can overrides the defects & inc= onsistencies of ETD's. </BLOCKQUOTE>  Dale Erwin Good job, Wayne.  Just keep going, and trust your ears; they're so muc= h more reliable, and pleasurable, than trusting a silicon-based device. &nbs= p; By all means, find a mentor whose tunings blow you away. Beg him or her to = let you hang around and listen. You will learn so much; your body will learn so much. About 15 months ago, on this list, I was challenged to take the final &quot= ;step out on the tightrope" as an aural tuner---completely old school, = with just one mute, one fork, one tuning hammer. So I did.  And, after = an initial harrowing couple of weeks, I started to get comfortable with the finality o= f it----and then the doors literally blew open to a whole new world of preci= sion and musicality in my tuning. It sounded good to me before, but now it s= ounds----well---perfect: liquid, swelling, blooming tones, everything is suc= h calm and beautiful balance, peace and harmony in every key, every chord vo= icing; the "money area" floating out above the rest of the piano w= ith so much character and color....the world-class pianists I've been tuning= for over the years have definitely noticed, and commented.  I've seen = the absolute truth of Virgil Smith's statement that a solid, precise, whole-= tone musical tuning can cause a tremendous psycho-acoustic illusion in the p= layer----the regulation feels better, the voicing sounds better----but all t= hat's been done is the tuning.  Amazing.  Please understand I'm no= t advocating failing to regulate or voice---far from it---but I'm just making a point.<B= R> Becoming a world-class tuner will guarantee a comfortable income and big re= spect in your local piano circles. I guarantee it.  <g> David Andersen Malibu, CA </BODY> </HTML>