Hi Carl, I'm always balancing between my aural skills and etd skills. For bread and butter tunings in the home, (which, where I live, means pitch correction 99% of the time, except when a good upright has excellent humidity control) the ETD is clearly the better choice for the client's sake. For concert level work an etd can get the piano close enough that a second aural pass may offer very stable and a high standard excellence. The etd may be used during that second pass--but it may be pretty much there "just for insurance". The tuner's taste and the client's preferrence should determine how an instrument is tuned. For example. I have one client who prefers 2:1 octaves right down to A0. It sounds awful to me--but it is what she prefers. Who am I to say she is wrong? I'm just an employee carrying out her wishes. Carl Root said: Do you (or does anyone) know of a full time tech who has used an ETD for a period of time (enough to really understand how it works), then decided, for whatever reason, to go back to tuning aurally?>271.1.1/2816 - Release Date: 04/17/10 00:31:00 Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://www.donrose.ca/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716
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