Hi Jim, You will never win the battle convincing aural tuners that visual tuners are better or even equal. This is due to forte per cent are ill informed and sixty per cent have a justified worry. The justification comes not from the individual who buys a SAT, this person by the nature of the amount of money they have spent means they intends to follow a career in piano tuning and I will help this individual any way I can. It is the Johnny come lately chappy, who buys a cheap ETD and sets himself up as a part time de-tuner at weekends. Tuning pianos for fifteen dollars, this is the tuner who worries most aural tuners. This is the tuner with a ETD that is viewed by most of the tuners in the U.K. Your tune off's although interesting, only serve to help the individual who wishes to make a bit of money on the side. If the media latches on to the tune off's and there is nothing to fill the end of their news cause no politicians have been caught with their Secretaries lately. You can imagine the head lines. great Tune off in States of what ever, whatever, and in England now prove conclusively that ETDs are far superior than the human ear. Some bright spark then starts advertising in your National press earn extra money at weekends by my kit learn to tune pianos in a weekend only two hundred dollars. Who will suffer the most? the visual tuner, or the aural tuner. It will be the public. However, the aural tuner will suffer, but the visual tuner will suffer more, as they will have educated there client's in to the beauties of ETDs. So when the advertisements appear in your local press have your piano tuned by ETD scientifically proven in field tests at PTG Conventions to be far superior than aural tuning. And you won't be able to stop them because the law under advertising has not been broken. As far as the general public is concerned the little cheap guitar tuner is just the same as the mighty SAT until the tuner has gone. Then look at the damage done to ETD reputation. What a black and sad picture. Like our colleagues in Sweeden we have a very rigid college based training schedule, totally dedicated to aural tuning. In the U.S. you seem to be geared up more for distant learning. Which lends itself very nicely to the use of ETDs. The picture may change here in the U.K. as the colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain funding for students on piano tuning courses. Possibly we will go down the same road as you with more distant learning programmes to fill the need for tuners. I hope that day will never come, however, if that day does come ETDs will play a bigger role in the tuning of pianos in the U.K. Take Care Barrie. n article <Pine.PCW.3.91.970116214923.5391B-100000@ppp1- 18.inre.asu.edu>, Jim <pianotoo@IMAP2.ASU.EDU> writes >My apologies to the list: > >For some 35 years I have tried to integrate the understanding of >aural tuning and electronic tuning through articles in the PTJ and >in classes all over the country at Seminars and Conventions. It's >obvious that a nerve was touched by a previous post. I should have >left out the challenge part at least. Really, I'm not the greatest >piano tuner in the world. I personally know many who are better. > -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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