[CAUT] using as ETD, was Re: Too tall!!??

[David Ilvedson]

Oh no, we just turn it on and listen the radio...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 4/10/2010 8:21:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD, was Re:  Too tall!!??



>>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