Jeff said: " Also, storing tunings and using the same tuning every time on the ame piano exponentially increases stability." I agree wholeheartedly. When tuning aurally we tune different notes somewhat ifferently each time. The exact same tuning/tension on the piano each time eally helps stability. dp To help Paul make a decision, this morning as I was tuning a couple of pianos, I thought how we can equate using an ETD to what we do in our everyday lives. What I came up with was reminder letter to customers. Tuning the same piano aurally, much less all pianos, over and over, is akin to hand typing, on a non-electric typewriter, a 200 word document to remind each one of your customers that it is time to get their piano tuned. You know what to write, but to type each letter, with each word spelled correctly, takes a lot of concentration. Using a ETD would be like having that document in your computer, and printing it out. You can proof read the document, and even make a change, if there is a need to do so. But it takes a lot less stress, and it won't take as long to do each letter. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Porritt, David <dporritt at mail.smu.edu> To: Jeff Tanner <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>; caut at ptg.org <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 5:50 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD, was Re: Too tall!!?? Jeff said: " Also, storing tunings and using the same tuning every time on the ame piano exponentially increases stability." I agree wholeheartedly. When tuning aurally we tune different notes somewhat ifferently each time. The exact same tuning/tension on the piano each time eally helps stability. dp avid M. Porritt, RPT porritt at smu.edu ----Original Message----- rom: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff anner ent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:25 AM o: caut at ptg.org ubject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD, was Re: Too tall!!?? ---- Original Message ----- rom: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> Stress? I suppose anyone who feels stress while tuning should get one ... Susan Kline, aural dinosaur Hi Susan, 've always felt an aural tuning takes as much out of me as a high energy usical performance of the same length of time. After 26 years, I still on't see how one can aurally tune a piano and it not be stressful with the evel of concentration required. Tuning aurally in the university was xponentially more stressful. All that hard effort wiped out in just a atter of days, and sometimes hours really takes a toll on the old psyche. uying an EDT was the best thing I ever did for stress reduction. Er, 2nd est thing I ever did for stress reduction. Quitting the university job was he best thing, by far. Jim Busby, I agree with everything you said, especially the agreeing with he EDT differences in tuning part. Our aural tuning rules don't take into ccount that the area of the piano we usually set an aural temperament is he worst scaled part of the piano. When we insist on making that section ork with our rules, we introduce errors into the tuning that only increase s we expand the tuning into the rest of the scale. Once I started trusting hat the EDT was actually creating a more equal temperament than my aural ules did, I started noticing the overall tuning worked out much better. lso, storing tunings and using the same tuning every time on the same piano xponentially increases stability. Jeff Tanner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100410/7b9bd5dc/attachment.htm>
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