The amount of stress probably depends on work load, which I fully understand. We on the left coast also are blessed with a very even climate, so unless a piano is banged to death or left in a sunny window, our work tends to hang on pretty well, sometimes for years. If I have to do concert work in a roaring hurry, sure I feel stress. Otherwise, just puttering along, and not doing too many a week -- it's sort of like meditation. In fact, some customers tell me it's restful listening to it. We're all in different situations, and we're also different people, and we're different ages. I'm easing off the workload, thankful that I can. Susan Susan In general, people who are reluctant to use certain tools or follow certain procedures, have never used the tools or the followed the procedures. They will use all sorts of excuses why their way of doing things are just fine, or that they can get along without a certain tool, because "they've always done it that way". Then one day they buy the tool, or follow the new procedure, and say "Hey this is really cool. I shoulda done this years ago". There is a reason more and more highly respected concert tuners are using ETD's. They found it does the job the manufacturer of the machines, and others, have been claiming all along. As the adage says. "try it, you'll like it". BTW, pianos in Hawaii are also very stable. I just did one this morning that I tuned a year ago. Using my SAT IV, I changed about two dozen strings maybe 1 or 2 cents. Then I went back and tuned the piano again, aurally, where I was able to concentrate on double octaves, 17th, etc. A totally relaxing morning. -----Original Message----- From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> To: Jeff Tanner <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>; caut at ptg.org Sent: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 5:00 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD, was Re: Too tall!!?? Hi, Jeff The amount of stress probably depends on work load, which I fully understand. We on the left coast also are blessed with a very even climate, so unless a piano is banged to death or left in a sunny window, our work tends to hang on pretty well, sometimes for years. If I have to do concert work in a roaring hurry, sure I feel stress. Otherwise, just puttering along, and not doing too many a week -- it's sort of like meditation. In fact, some customers tell me it's restful listening to it. We're all in different situations, and we're also different people, and we're different ages. I'm easing off the workload, thankful that I can. Susan >Hi Susan, >I've always felt an aural tuning takes as much out of me as a high >energy musical performance of the same length of time. After 26 >years, I still don't see how one can aurally tune a piano and it not >be stressful with the level of concentration required. Tuning >aurally in the university was exponentially more stressful. All that >hard effort wiped out in just a matter of days, and sometimes hours >really takes a toll on the old psyche. Buying an EDT was the best >thing I ever did for stress reduction. Er, 2nd best thing I ever >did for stress reduction. Quitting the university job was the best >thing, by far. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100411/ff9d864e/attachment.htm>
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