<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: x-small"> <DIV>Brian:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Your aural tunings will improve as you work with a VTD.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>dave<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 9/3/99 at 7:14 PM Brian Trout wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hi John,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I had to laugh at the first line! <grin>  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>No steroids.  Just a mix of rest, exercise, good eatin', and a few vitamins & minerals for good measure.  :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Actually, the only thing that hurt a bit was the hand that works the tuning hammer.  Even got a small blister.  But after a day of different kind of work, I'm all back to my usual self.  (And I was pretty tired.  They didn't ask me to do the tunings 'till I had already worked for about 4 hours...  But a little sleep took care of that.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I haven't used an ETD yet.  I've looked at the advertisements, and maybe wish a bit from time to time, but for the time being, I'm an aural tuner.  I've been toying with Tunelab a bit, but I don't have a laptop computer, so it's pretty much academic for now.  I would like to see if I could use an ETD to make me a better aural tuner.  We'll see.  But one thing about the 'marathon tuning', it was good for me in that I got to set 10 temperaments on 10 different pianos, the speed of which improved as I went, and they actually got better as I went.  (Practice makes perfect...or at least we move in that direction...)  I was going too fast, and they were in pretty bad tune for me to play with more or less stretch in the octaves.  That'll have to be for another day! :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I have the next week off, so I'll catch up on my R&R for sure!!  :-) </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Hope you have a nice holiday weekend.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brian Trout</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Quarryville, PA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="mailto:btrout@desupernet.net">btrout@desupernet.net</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From: </B>John M. Formsma <<A href="mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com">jformsma@dixie-net.com</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR><B>Date: </B>Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:29 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>RE: Marathon tuning<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999>Dear Brian Schwarzeneggar,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999>Send me whatever steroids you are taking, and I'll wrestle some Baldwins, too. :-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999>May you rest well over this 4-day weekend. :-)  You deserve it.  Congratulations.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999>John Formsma</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999>P.S.  Did you tune these aurally or electronically?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=670260602-03091999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=2 Arial></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML> <PRE> _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________</PRE>