>Another huge benefit of an ETD is the reduction in db and impact >stress with octave pounding. SAves your ears and your hands. Hi, Jon I never have pounded octaves. What pounding happens happens on individual notes, in the area where they can be knocked out by a pianist. I tune a note, whack it, then immediately play it softly to hear it clearly, so I know that it didn't go out. The amount of whacking varies according to how solid the unisons already are. Stability builds up in repeated tunings. A piano which demands a lot of banging when I first meet it gradually gets house-trained, so it doesn't need quite so much. If I know it's about to go through some kind of hell, I'll give it a bit more in anticipation. I don't see how people can do ETD tunings without the same settling blows that aural tunings need, at least for concert work. And if the settling blows are the same, where is the saving of db? What I'm glad of is not needing to wrench out bulk tunings anymore, like practice rooms. Sometimes it's not that bad, being in one's mid-sixties. Nothing against people who use ETD's, obviously. And you are tremendously in the majority at this point. I find I'm sorry about that, and I'm also sorry about how overworked so many techs are. Susan
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